Word: ballooned
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...savvily directed by David Dobkin, has Summer Hit engraved all over it, like an invitation to the marriage of The Wedding Singer and Old School. It glamorizes the men's predation by making them charmers who have a great time, and give one too: at receptions Jeremy makes balloon animals for the kids, John schmoozes with the seniors. It conjures up a convenient villain in Claire's boyfriend Sach (Bradley Cooper), a shark-faced sociopath who fools everyone in the family but no one in the audience. It offers the dream of creative fraudulence and the payoff of a frog...
...Another oft-used example is of two Maryland men who supposedly put a hot-air balloon into a commercial laundry dryer. The machine exploded, injuring both men, who won $885,000 from the maker of the dryer. What actually happened is that the men took the balloon to a hospital that had laundry equipment designed for industrial purposes. The dryer vibrated violently and then exploded. Both men were injured; one required microsurgery to reattach his hand, which was almost severed. The dryer's maker had a patent on a device that would have stopped the dryer automatically if it began...
...Describe a Jackson plot to kidnap her family in a hot-air balloon...
...muscle and fat stores to fuel critical metabolic and cellular processes). The damage from repetitive impact on bones and muscles leaves its mark, especially in the legs and feet as capillaries break down. Rusch carries a second pair of shoes to accommodate feet that she knows from experience will balloon in size. In fact, after three years of repeated assaults on her feet, Rusch has gone up a shoe size...
Also during the opening weekend festivities, residents will enjoy hot air balloon displays in Dorchester, Roxbury, South Boston, West Roxbury, Brighton, and downtown on Boston Common on Saturday...