Word: lift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House-passed bill technically maintained the breath of life in OPA for another nine months. Actually it had preserved the shell but extinguished the soul. Unless drastic alterations were made in the Senate, OPA would soon be required to lift the price lid on nearly every cost-of-living item except rent...
...Alnico (aluminum, nickel, cobalt and iron), a hard, brittle alloy which can lift 4,450 times its own weight...
Step Down, Please. In Elizabeth, N.J., Auto Passenger Armando Brito awoke, decided to get out and stretch, floated briefly through the air, became acutely aware that the car had been six feet up on an automatic lift...
...Hill), a loose and lovely charmer who chucks a saloonkeeper for a whirlwind jockey called Little Augie (Harold Nicholas). The saloonkeeper gets plugged by a discarded flame, but thinking that Augie fired the shot, puts a dying-breath curse on him. Augie's luck changes and, hoping to lift the jinx, Delia leaves him. But his luck soon returns, and so does the lady...
...good, etc. Olivier puts it in the mouth of a slow-minded country boy (Brian Nissen). The boy's complete lack of cynicism, his youth, his eyes bright with sleepless danger, the peasant patience of his delivery, and his Devon repetition of the tolled word die as doy, lift this wonderful expression of common humanity caught in human war level with the greatness of the King...