Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan and Evita Perón's Argentina, events are marching decisively in 1951. Inflation remains the country's greatest problem and peril, but the threat of World War III has given the economy a temporary lift. The war, Argentines feel sure, will not be their war; ever since sentiment flared up last summer against sending even token forces to Korea, Perón has proclaimed that Argentines will defend their own black soil, and no more...
...convulsed the crowd by jumping for nonexistent balls, plunging feet-first into the crowd, and faking stomach cramps. But whenever the chips were down, husky (6 ft. 2 in.) Otar Kor-kija dominated the backboards, and his deadly shooting (30 points in one game) gave the Russians a big lift...
...angles to one another. These keep the missile stable in flight, like the feathers of an arrow. The control surfaces are four small, triangular, movable fins one-third of the way back from the missile's nose. They can steer the missile, roll it and even give it lift, like an airplane in flight. All the fins have supersonic shapes; they are made of solid metal, with thin, diamond-shaped cross sections...
...good sportsmanship afterward, the crews form a "W," if you can wait around for awhile. Don't panic when they try to lift their oars in salute. Those are barges, not shells. There's even been talk of holding the sophomore prom in one of them...
...badly. Some are more than half abstract, and Fazzini's bullying of the body into geometrical shapes can be hard to take. But Fazzini uses his freedom with figures to make them look alive from every angle. They seem to be in motion, often have the fiery spiral lift that Michelangelo, with infinitely greater subtlety, achieved. "The body in sculpture," Fazzini says, "is not something that breathes air as I breathe. It must live by itself, outside of physical death...