Word: aloft
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...explosion's chain reaction reached 25 of the plant's 57 sheds and shacks, and all eight of the big wooden buildings. Packets of firecrackers shot aloft and burst in the air. As Kent's 300 workers, three-quarters of them women, ran for their lives, many of them crashed into the encircling wire fence. Some rebounded toward the single open gate; others climbed over; still others, with terror's unnatural strength, uprooted the fence and crawled under. Worker Mildred Reed dashed from the fiery plant with an armload of detonators, was knocked down ten times...
...homeland through a life of wanderings. He came to Paris in 1910, lived through both prewar cubism and postwar surrealism, took something from both, was captured by neither. Instead, he clung to his own haunting evocations of nameless gaiety and wistful sadness, in a weightless world of objects flung aloft by some superhuman juggler and suspended in midair. Many of his themes derive from the Russian folk tales and Jewish rituals of his youth, still more from his happy marriage with his late wife Bella, whose image in bridal white or sensual black hovered across the skies of his paintings...
NONSTOP FLIGHTS across the continent by American Airlines will be stopped if the Civil Aeronautics Administration has its way. The CAA, in effect, has charged American with violating crew regulations by keeping pilots aloft for more than the eight-hour maximum on better than half its flights (headwinds frequently slow westbound runs to more than nine hours), has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue the nonstop flights...
...avail. Threatened with being shot on the spot, he wearily motioned them to go ahead and shoot him - and didn't budge. It was uncertain what the attitude at head quarters would be, so a runner was dispatched for orders. When he returned, the bulky Earthquake was hoisted aloft and carried to prison by his diminutive captors...
...hills solely to hear the answering sound of his own distorted voice. In a drunken revel, O'Herlihy re-creates in his cave all the roistering cheerfulness of an Elizabethan pub, but this ends, too, in a disillusion so great that he walks blindly into the surf, bearing aloft a blazing torch. When he drops the brand into the sea, it is as though his own humanity were extinguished...