Word: ballooned
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PARIS Krug Champagne lovers should reserve their spot now for dinner on Krug's hot-air balloon, which is sailing around the world after an initial launch in Miami...
Bresnick seemed very optimistic about the future of the genre, which, he said, offers a multiplicity of opportunities. “I have ceased to think of the future of music like a train, or cars moving past each other. It is like a balloon, expanding in all directions...
...Force rejects. Boeing has said it may launch a formal protest after it gets an Air Force briefing explaining the decision on Friday. The initial contract is for 179 planes over 15 years to refuel the Pentagon's fighters and bombers in mid-air. Ultimately, it could balloon to 500 planes worth about $100 billion...
...James H. O’Keefe ’09 and Samuel L. T. Walsh ’09 met at the Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance’s Gay Gaymes in October and discovered love somewhere between the three-legged rage and balloon-stomp. Their fairy-tale romance—described as “Love, Actually” by O’Keefe and “Titus Andronicus” by Walsh—has been flourishing since then...
...balance your desire for daredevil adventure with the risk of death? -Mengqiao Wang, Ithaca, N.Y.As an adventurer, if I try to do something man has not done before-like cross the Atlantic in a hot-air balloon-I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end, though, you've got to take calculated risks; otherwise, you're going to sit in mothballs all day and do nothing. Life is a helluva lot more fun if you say yes rather than...