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Anderson's business is flying balloons--most more than 100 times the size of the Good year Blimp--an activity which has won him a reputation as one of the world's top experts in atmospheric chemistry. And in doing so, he has found himself at the heart of one of today's most pressing environmental questions...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Up, Up and Away | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

...standing as tall as six feet at the shoulders and weighing up to 1,800 lbs. with antlers six feet across. Yet the moose is about as ferocious as a mouse. Many hunters concede that shooting the lumbering, dimwitted beasts is about as challenging as firing at a Goodyear blimp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: To Kill or Not to Kill | 10/25/1982 | See Source »

...work gamed international attention recently when he used a translucent helium-filled balloon 100 times the size of the Goodyear blimp" and "as high as the John Hancock Building" in Boston to lower a 150lh. package of measuring devices repeatedly through the stratosphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Anderson Named to New Science Chair | 10/22/1982 | See Source »

...years to test the state of the R-to see how much lowlife energy can be splattered on-screen without drawing an X rating. It also offers technicians with eyes on loftier assignments a chance to parade their craft by aiming low, like a sniper at a grounded blimp. Director Sherman is a young-old hand at this (remember Raw Meat?); he keeps the camera steady, the action terse and his cast overacting at a uniform pitch that amounts to a house style. The movie does not stint on intelligently choreographed thrills. Like a sleek, knowledgeable hooker, Vice Squad delivers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: State of the R: Vice Squad | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...good bet today's game will be more exciting than those two. Supposedly, Joe Restic has cooked up a play that will send ten eligible receivers downfield at once and then drop Ron Cuccia from the Goodyear Blimp. Princeton, on the other hand, has the worst defense this side of Chuck Wepner, including a self-destruct secondary that has allowed over 150 points in five games. A whole team of Bayonne Bleeders living an hour south of Bayonne...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Think You've Seen It All? | 10/24/1981 | See Source »

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