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Word: ballooned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...building recorded a 1984 GMC truck driving by, and since Nichols owned a GMC truck of the same year, the government tried to use the video to corroborate its theory that he picked up McVeigh that night, after he parked his getaway car. But the defense easily popped this balloon, pointing out that dozens of people in the area might own such trucks. The FBI did not find McVeigh's fingerprints on the truck rental agreement, the ignition key or other pieces of evidence (although an expert testified that this was not unusual). This week prosecutors have the delicate task...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BURDEN OF PROOF | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...crash that allegedly took place in 1947; the military, so the story goes, recovered some alien remains--and has kept them locked up ever since in a top-secret deep freeze. The Pentagon maintains that what it really recovered was the remains of a sophisticated, secret, surveillance balloon. But who would want to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that? So this summer, from July 1 through July 6, the town will be host to Roswell UFO Encounter '97, a celebration that will include the 1997 UFO Crash & Burn Extravaganza, a contest in which participants must build and "fly" their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COOL SUMMER STATE: TRULY ENCHANTED: SPACESHIPS, POWWOWS, O'KEEFFE--OH, MY! | 5/26/1997 | See Source »

...clown in the street who was making balloon flowers said he enjoyed the day's festivities...

Author: By Lisa N. Brennan-jobs, | Title: Annual May Fair Enlivens Square | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...host a dance party complete with pulsing music and flashing lights. In Chris Burden's Pizza City, a room filled with tables supporting a bizarre urban sprawl suggests an overzealous collector of model train sets and holiday porcelain villages from mail-order catalogs. Likewise, Bryan Crockett's gigantic balloon explosion could only have been made by a slightly obsessive character, perhaps an eccentric clown bored with his mastery of simple balloon wiener dogs and poodles...

Author: By Scott Rothkopf, | Title: The Greatest Show on Earth | 4/17/1997 | See Source »

...Hogan had a rocky first," Coach Walsh said of last year's game. "Balls were finding holes. It was as if someone had busted a balloon out there...

Author: By Richard B. Tenorio, | Title: M. Baseball Set for Cornell Showdown | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

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