Word: hoisted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christine Stevens wore down the opposition. The bill sailed through both houses, is in line for quick conference action and presidential signature. The Agriculture Department will enforce it. And packers probably will fall into line. Although the measure contains no noncompliance penalties, packers who hammer cattle and hoist conscious pigs are ineligible to bid on Government contracts. And the U.S., purchasing $250 million worth of meat a year, is too big a customer to lose...
...Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
Automatic Transgression. In Columbus, Ohio, Raymond Pickens borrowed a 1952 Chevrolet from a used car dealer to try it out, drove it to a vacant lot, where police found him lifting out the motor with a chain hoist he had secured to a tree limb...
...Silk. In Sydney, Australia, when Robert Owen leaned over a balcony to help movers hoist furniture to his new apartment, the railing snapped and he fell 15 feet into...
Almost as soon as they landed in New York, the seven visiting Soviet strongmen began to wonder whether weight lifting in the U.S. is a sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began...