Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respiration. The Army, Navy and Air Force, the American Red Cross, the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts and the A.M.A. have all agreed to abandon the "Schafer prone-pressure" method which has been in use for two generations. Instead, they will teach first-aid workers the "back-pressure, arm-lift" method...
...picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...
Breen suspects that the thiefs were in the building for some time before attempting to lift the coats. "The only way we'll ever recover the coats is if they are turned over to a pawnshop," he said...
...ready to do anything if we can handle it with our own two hands. But we're afraid to try something too big, a job that takes God's help . . . This place should be filled ... As we stand in front of this cross, lift up our shamed hearts to the work that is ours...
Problems & Know-How. Why are machine-tool builders so far behind? One reason is that the machine-tool industry must literally lift itself by its bootstraps; it must make its own tools before it can start producing them for anyone else. Another is that at war's end the U.S. Government sold 300,000 surplus tools at 15?on the dollar, and swamped the market. For five years, machine-tool production slumped. Thus, when the Korean war broke, producers were deluged with orders for replacement tools as well as for the new types needed for the weapons of modern...