Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes, Sheehy goes on to say, fly high and fast, but their fuel consumption is terrific. "Real virtue calls for a steady flow of power. We should thank God for the lift in an emergency, but God doesn't try to win souls by manufacturing crises...
...singer has certain sounds he makes better than others. Frankie Laine is sweat and hard words-he's a guy beating the pillow, a purveyor of basic emotions. Guy Mitchell is better with happy-go-lucky songs; he's a virile young singer, gives people a vicarious lift. Clooney is a barrelhouse dame, a hillbilly at heart...
...week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted was probably a record-at least for that type of plane...
...into the Sacramento. When it reaches the delta where the Sacramento and the San Joaquin join, it will be led across the lowlands to a pumping plant at Tracy, in the foothills of the Coast Range. There it will get a boost from six huge pumps to lift it 200 feet into a canal. The pumps run on power from Shasta Dam. At Tracy, as at Grand Coulee, a river is made to raise part of itself above...
...Commando raid was really the result of foul play. Milland's hunt for the killer takes him to the Welsh coal pits, the highlands of Scotland, the English countryside, the streets of London. The tour has genuine atmosphere, but the story lacks pace and imagination, and gains no lift from Mil-land's romantic side trip with Britain's Patricia...