Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When other reporters began to check the Alsops' story, however, the implication that Project Lincoln was the Government's prime concern collapsed like a pricked balloon. At a presidential press conference, Dwight Eisenhower quietly remarked that he had never studied the report in detail. Other Administration spokesmen made it clear that Project Lincoln is only one of several air-defense studies, none of which is now under active consideration...
...physical touch of food entering the stomach set off a chain of automatic reactions. The stomach "grabbed" the food with firm muscles and "milked" it on its way down the intestinal tract. And the stomach did these same things when the doctors inserted a small balloon on a string...
...greatest train wreck ever filmed in The Greatest Show on Earth; the scene in The Quiet Man in which Barry Fitzgerald walks into the newly weds cottage after their fast night and finds the broken bed; the climax of the Crimson Pirate a perfect parody, during which a balloon and a submarine attack a square rigger...
Even a small satellite could be made to shine at dusk. It could inflate a plastic balloon which would gleam as brightly in the sunlight as a first-magnitude star. This "American star," rising in the west, should make a powerful impression on the peoples of Asia...
...great balloon of educational television in the Boston area has developed a serious puncture. Its foremost brace, the Lowell Institute Broadcasting Council, lacks the one thing which upper story ideals cannot replace--financial backing. Without it the Council is going nowhere...