Word: hoist
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Then came that dreadful moment when Franklin Roosevelt must rise in public. Those below could not notice, but those on the portico could see what a supreme effort it takes to hoist himself up. He rose. Spurning a cape offered by his son James, he walked to the black podium, bareheaded and in a blue suit. He was grave and solemn. His big shoulders and his suntanned face with the resolute jaw were all that was visible to the crowd below. Immediately below the portico were 7,806 invited guests, including the Roosevelt grandchildren (see cut);* in the Ellipse stood...
...Hoist. In Toledo, Norman O'Neil returned to the library a book six weeks overdue: The Art of Rapid Reading...
...Hoist. In Detroit, John Gremblewski prepared a poisoned ham sandwich, left it out for rats, later got hungry. He will recover...
...Hoist. In Washington, the Post Office Department took routine steps to send bond posters to East Bridgewater, Mass., addressed East Bridgewater's allotment on its own machines, got East Bridgewater's package back, stamped "insufficient address...
...suit and wondering how many thousands of Chinese dollars he could get for it, was little better off than the university professor wondering whether he should abandon his career, with its paltry fixed salary, for a bank clerk's job where at least there was some attempt to hoist wages as the cost of living soared. In this atmosphere, U.S. Army men in China soon lost all sense of normal value. It is no novelty to see a U.S. soldier or civilian official offer 30 U.S. dollars ($3,000 Chinese, at black-market rate) for a bottle of Scotch...