Word: hoist
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About 360 million years ago, as any schoolchild who knows his prehistoric zoology can tell you, some adventurous fish managed to hoist themselves onto their stubby fins and crawl clumsily out of the swamps to forage for food. Once these primeval creatures were on terra firma, their offspring began to adapt to their new environment, natural selection (over tens of millions of years) favoring those that developed features well suited to life on land: paws, hooves, knees, joints, fingers and thumbs. Thus, as generations of schoolchildren have learned, did these marine creatures give rise to frogs, birds, dinosaurs...
...humiliation that I had dreaded--being "that first-year who is always sprawled on the ground"--didn't arise. Nor did the pain I had anticipated in my precious ankle. In fact, finding a door handle to hoist myself up on, I was no my way to conquer the inside stairs within minutes...
...mention elemental species like the Hell's Angels. After receiving degrees in physiology, biology and medicine from Oxford, Sacks headed to California in 1960 to study neurology and sample the wild life. He rode with the notorious bikers' club and lifted weights competitively. A 600-lb. hoist won him a state championship. Today he keeps in shape by swimming two hours a day. "It's like watching a porpoise," says his friend, New Yorker writer Lawrence Weschler. "He's incredibly powerful, incredibly graceful and incessant...
Beneath the stage, which has been extended sixfeet into the former seating area, a new pianolift has been added. It will be able to hoist agrand piano directly from the basement to thestage...
...crash left a large gash in the western wallof the building. It also partially damaged thebuilding's indoor hoist system, a circularturnstile with which the boats are stored,according to Wrinn...