Word: hoisting
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...design theme, full of monoliths and luminous spheres: the stage looked like the cover of a Yes album. To stay on schedule the producers even promised a high-definition television to the giver of the shortest acceptance speech (and who wasn't hoping to see Julia Roberts hoist her guaranteed Best-Julia-Roberts statuette for "Erin Brockovich" and say simply, "I'll take the TV too, please," and prance...
...most vocal of them gathered near the Navy Memorial, where some managed to hoist down the American flag and raise their own, a black rag. Blue-helmeted riot police responded with batons and pepper spray...
...doesn't allow a competitor to take down an opponent by attacking his legs. That places a premium on lifts and throws. Such tactics are common in lighter weight classes, but Karelin--"King Kong" or "The Experiment" to fellow wrestlers--is the only super heavyweight with the strength to hoist a 290-lb. foe and fling him to the mat, in a maneuver the Russian calls a "reverse body lift." To execute it, Karelin locks his arms around the waist of an opponent, then lifts the wrestler like a sack of potatoes and, arching his back, heaves the hapless fellow...
...good, right? We had just vanquished our most hated adversaries in a sweet romp, and the nucleus of the team was relatively young. There would be years and years to come where we would breeze through the league to hoist the Larry O'Brien Trophy again without competition in sight. Although looking back at the '90s, it is apparent that this was actually the case, a shrewd move by Knicks management in the summer of 1991 resulted in a heated rivalry that consumed most of the following decade in basketball...
...access the shelves, depository workers drive motorized lifts that hoist them 30 feet into the air to reach the higher levels. It's not exactly a librarian's typical work environment...