Word: ballooned
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Midway through the second quarter, a giant balloon began to grow out of the ground near mid-field, halting play and eventually capturing national headlines. At the time, WBZ-TV sportscaster Bob Lobel said it was perhaps the greatest college prank of all time. The Boston Globe’s Michael Madden agreed, calling it “the prank of pranks”, while footage of the event was broadcast nationally on CBS. This year’s Harvard-Yale game marks the twentieth anniversary of the MIT prank, an event burned in the memories of those who witnessed...
...having an NFL linebacker standing on every single square inch of her body." At this depth her lungs were compressed to the size of oranges, and her heart had slowed to fewer than 20 beats a minute. Mestre reached up to inflate the air bag--like an underwater balloon--that was to take her back up to the surface...
...Home for the Intimate Ghosts,? horny demons and succubi preyed on innocent maidens and scholars, and the rite of copulation was a vigorous and elaborate martial art. Until about 1997 - when Britain ceded the colony to Mainland China, and the helium coincidentally seeped out of the cinematic balloon - Cat III films often played to good business in Asian theaters and were fast rentals in video stores around the world...
...stories of cruel women; one song even name-checks “The Great Gatsby.” There is little room for Radiohead-style navel-inspection in their power-pop broadside. “Power-pop” is an unfortunate term for anything except a large bubblegum balloon, but such are the vagaries of music terminology. Luckily, Invisible Downtown’s debut The Safest Place is one of the strongest arguments for the term’s redemption. The undeniable songwriting talent of guitarists Joseph S. Bell ’03 and Michael J. Palmer...
...They rotate, like a balloon that, when you squeeze it, it pops out on the other side,” Keller says...