Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists are beginning to worry aloud about the tens of thousands of "freedom leaflets" spilled from huge plastic balloons wafted over their lands from the West. Western Europeans are apt to regard the balloons (a U.S. idea) as a lot of hot air. But Red army units in Austria opened up on them with antiaircraft guns, and the Czech Communists sent armed guards, at least one of whom was captured, to destroy the balloon-launching sites. Two months ago the Hungarian government made an angry official protest to the U.S. that the leaflets were inciting anti-Communist Hungarians to rebellion...
...Like A Balloon...
...enlarge most colleges by 1000 would require a new dormitory or two, an enlarged dining hall, library, and gymnasium-a balloon-like enlargement of the whole. Harvard, however, can enlarge by adding virtually self-sufficient units, each with its own academic staff, common rooms, dining and recreational facilities, and library...
...Democratic Mayor Joseph Clark Jr., about to begin a dinner speech, was summoned to an air-raid drill that just happened to be called by Governor John Fine, who just happens to be Republican. Oregon Republicans muttered darkly that someone-a Democrat, no doubt-had punctured the huge "Ike" balloon they planned to float over Portland. John Roosevelt, barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut, smear and slander...
Flaming Spin. The first small crack was enough; air pressure (more than half a ton per square foot) did the rest. The cabin exploded like a bursting balloon; its top flew off; its tail and nose broke away. The wings broke in two, releasing floods of fuel, which ignited. Then the gutted fuselage with its two stub wings dived flaming to the sea in an inverted spin...