Word: aloft
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Hats were heaved aloft. Russians cheered, hugged each other, telephoned their friends. The celebration spread from factories to collective farms, from crowded city streets to clusters of huts on the lonely steppes. Newspapers blossomed with bright red headlines. Everywhere people paraded with banners hailing the Soviet leap into space. Not even for Sputnik 1 had the U.S.S.R. worked up such effervescent enthusiasm...
...intelligence sent an urgent alert. Although the Vostok was launched at 1:07 a.m. Washington time, and the first Russian radio announcement was delayed until 2 a.m., it was only 1:30 a.m. when the Pentagon told Presidential Science Adviser Jerome Wiesner that a big Russian bird was aloft...
...farm message stirred strong reactions. Holding aloft a copy, Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Horatio Humphrey told a cheering convention of the National Farmers' Union, meeting in Washington, that "the President of the U.S. is on your side now. All I can say is, thank God - and with all reverence, thank you, Mr. President, for the farm message you sent us today." Some other remarks were less ecstatic. "Nebulous and rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett...
...anachronism, Senior Birdman Max Conrad, 58, still flies the featherweight flivvers of his youth, stocks his cockpit with a rhyming dictionary for versifying while aloft, has made 79 solo crossings of the Atlantic. Last week, the latter-day Lindbergh landed his Piper Aztec at Miami International Airport after logging a 25,457-mile trip around the world. His time-eight days. 18 hours, 49 minutes-chopped 20 days off the previous record for light piston craft...
...They gave directions." The sect's leader seemed like "a kind fellow," wrote the patrol captain, until "one suddenly remembered a sequence in a documentary film about the atrocious doings of the sectarians. This same face was thrust back, gazing aloft, his hands supplicating God. trembling in ecstasy, and by his mad praying infecting dozens of ignorant folk. The man in front of us was not just someone who was sincerely misled. In front of us was the enemy...