Word: balloonful
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Senator Wagner had introduced such a resolution before, 32 days after Pearl Harbor. But that time he let the idea die, a trial balloon collapsed and brought to earth. This time he was determined to see it through. No one wise in the ways of Washington believed that he would take such a stand unless his feet were on solid White House ground...
Whether Schmidt's burst was bad-tempered carelessness or a balloon to find out whether neutrals were still afraid of Germany, the answer was the Zurich Volksrecht's headline: "Wir machen nicht mit!" ("We won't play ball...
...last week Randy formally abandoned his theories of a center party, explaining that he had advocated it as a "trial balloon." Commented the News Chronicle: "One cannot avoid the suspicion that it was an older member of the Churchill family who stuck a needle-possibly a lighted cigar-into the trial balloon...
...office of Tribune Managing Editor James Loy Maloney the night (June 6) when the Navy's first communiqué on the Battle of Midway came in. Editor Maloney is said to have humphed that the Navy was trying to balloon a skirmish into a big battle, proposed to put the story on an inside page. Reporter Johnston protested that it was one of the biggest naval battles in history. He laid before Editor Maloney a list of Japanese ships, gave him a description of the Japanese battle strategy. So Maloney put the story on page...
...enemy over the hill and around the corner, artillery has to put an observer where he can correct fire. This was easy from a balloon. But in 1942 high-powered planes have made balloons dangerously obsolete. Using commercial flivvers, artillery pilots hop up & down behind their own lines-just long enough to see where the shots are falling, and to radio corrections. Two graduate pilots and a full-time mechanic go to every field-artillery battalion...