Word: ballooning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, by the time Joseph's balloon had cleared Knocke beach, the wind had freshened. The balloon was 1,000 feet up and heading north at 25 m.p.h. The men in the motorboat made one grab for Joseph's line as he whipped by overhead and missed. Joseph, who had faithfully promised his wife that he would not go more than ten miles...
...Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international understanding...
...Rome's toughest gladiators and most durable prostitutes. Since then it has energetically produced a steady stream of hoodlums, revolutionaries, first-class soccer teams and the most colorful nicknames on the Italian peninsula (Trasteverini know each other by such names as the Mosquito, the Tub and the Big Balloon). "We don't quite know how we got to be different from everyone else," said the Mosquito last week as he polished up the wine glasses at his bar in the Via della Lungaretta. "I guess it's just a tradition sent down from our ancestors...
...Prize for the Big Balloon. The frustrated Communists howled. "They are pulling a fast one," shrieked a party newspaper Il Paesa. "The Feast of Us Others is being changed to the Feast of Them There . . . Them There are the people who argue only with 1,000 lira bills . . . people who would change into toothpaste advertising even the pictures of Raphael . . ." The Communists' final blow came when they discovered that the opposition had cornered all police permits for the feast. The police took the position that if the Communists and the anti-Communists both hold processions for the Madonna...
...scores of other contests came off in style. The Big Balloon, an undersized young hawker in the piazza of San Cosimato, won 20,000 lira (about $35) for his exceptional fruit stand, which boasted 15 varieties of fruit and a trimming of laurel and myrtle leaves. Grazie Ceci, who is 90 years old and who shares three rooms in Bologna alley with 22 relatives and acquaintances, won a 1,000 lira prize as the oldest grandmother, announced she would spend a good part of it on wine...