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Right away, Paul goes upstairs and drags down a big blue tank, like a balloon seller's tank of helium, and a bag of balloons. It's a tank of nitrous oxide. NO2, what dentists use, laughing gas. He offers me the first balloonful. I've never been to a dentist who used gas but it seems like fun, and he doesn't have to persuade me to take it. As I suck in the gas, cooler than the air in the living room. I feel giddy but not dizzy, and I laugh a little. It feels like the moment...
Standing in front of a glass window revealing the red-carpeted interior of the Century Plaza. NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle remarked that he had eight parties to go that evening. "Tomorrow we are going to try and break the Munich balloon record of 20,000. At half-time we are going in release 30,000 balloons...
With his attractive wife Hjördis on his arm, Actor-Turned-Storyteller David Niven flew into London to plug his autobiography, The Moon's a Balloon, and disclosed that he has nearly finished his first novel, which he calls his "secret project." Next month, armed only with "an absolutely appalling desire to be frightened," he comes to the U.S. for a tour of the college lecture circuit. His topics? "I haven't a clue to what I'll be talking about. I'll just improvise on the spot, I think...
...15th is also grandiose and tire some, a big, empty balloon of a symphony. Shostakovich makes all the right orchestral gestures. Snare drums tap away energetically. Muted trumpets wail balefully from some nostalgic never-never land. The first cello sings a sad song. At the proper climactic moments, the strings and brass saw away at each other like legions at war. Yet gesture is just about all there...
...Soft, resilient and apparently harmless, rubber balloons seem like ideal toys for toddlers; some kids even like to nibble the knot. But balloons can also be dangerous, report three Honolulu physicians in the journal Pediatrics. Drs. Yi-Chuan Ching, J. Dempsey Huitt and George Nagao say that balloons that burst while being chewed or inflated can explode with such force that fragments of rubber may be propelled back into the mouth and windpipe, causing asphyxiation. The trio base their warning on a review of a score of fatal accidents plus their own observations of two other cases. One two-year...