Word: ballooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least some parts of Kosovo, and would very likely jeopardize NATO-Russian cooperation on keeping the peace there. In short, it could leave KFOR's Western ground troops in the middle of a shooting war. Though the "policy shift" reported by the Post could be something of a trial balloon (the Washington Post and the New York Times are often used as litmus tests by government officials), expect it to draw some fearsome flak, either...
Since then, the College has seen the number of large blocking groups balloon, leading to concerns among House Masters that students were using large blocking groups as a way to insulate themselves from involvement in House communities...
...typing 15 words a minute. And the program adapts its lessons to tackle weak spots--in my case anything not on the home row. For a break, kids can play games like Far-off Adventure, in which typing in rhythm with accompanying music keeps a hot-air balloon afloat on the screen. The CD-ROM even has charts and graphs to track students' progress. A flexible program, it adapts the complexity of its language to the age of the budding typist, beginning at age eight. Someday I hope to become good enough to tap out a sonnet...
...wasn't so long ago that politicians talked at us incessantly. They were scolds, know-it-alls, flatterers, braggarts, blowhards, loudmouths, balloon-juice merchants--choose your epithet. They were in love with the sound of their own voice. They wouldn't shut up. You could gag them with terry cloth, wrap them in cellophane, dump them in the Mariana Trench--you could plug your ears with a Walkman and crank up a Def Leppard CD to 10--and still you'd hear the little tinny yap-yap of some office seeker promising cleaner streets, safer subways, cavity-free teeth. There...
Children should be entertained with plenty of softball games, relay races and water-balloon tosses. Older kids can be recruited to help. "Remember," reunion professional Edith Wagner counseled me, "happy kids make for happy parents and grandparents." Children should be prepared to have their cheeks pinched repeatedly and to be told that they look exactly like ancestors who died decades...