Word: lift
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the time-May 5, 1936-when Italian legions completed their conquest of Ethiopia. Then Mussolini had bidden his proud followers to "lift up their standards, their weapons and their hearts and greet the new empire which after 15 centuries again reappears upon the fateful hills of Rome...
...Southern Governors, instead of being anti-Roosevelt, now began to scramble to be his next Vice President (see p. 24). Franklin Roosevelt told reporters he was getting a tremendous lift out of his jaunt...
...surprise, the gallantry, the first blow at Tokyo gave American morale an enormous lift, when just such a lift was most needed...
...figures were there to prove it. Ford executives, who in the months of dead hopes had quietly borne their lumps from the Army, the old-line aviation companies and the public, were bursting to make their brave new figures public. They thought the figures might give the U.S. a lift and the Axis a good scare. The Army said no, flatly; but U.S. citizens could take heart anyway. The news from Willow Run is good...
Have strength and courage, ye men of Baker. Lift your weary heads anew. For, come a few short weeks lapse of time, and you shall no longer lose two hours precious slumber standing guard. Hell no. You'll lose seven and a half...