Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to have nightmares that the cops would lift my license...
...kissing in France, says the duke, "has always been considered optional, except in the case of royal princesses. But it is a custom which obeys fashion. Today it is back in fashion. It is a la mode." The duke offers this advice: "Best usage requires that the practitioner not lift up the offered hand towards himself, but incline himself over the hand, lightly brushing it with his lips. It is a mark of respect which one should address only to a married woman. It is rather difficult to execute and is not recommended in the street. In the salon...
Last week Contino was looking down his accordion at the Mark Hopkins and giving San Francisco night life its biggest lift of the season...
Early in the last period Northeastern returned to the offensive, and Campion took a pass at his own blue line and made a solo dash against no defensemen at all, scoring on a high lift. During the rest of the game the Crimson kept pressing, but never could click...
...particular the final version of the student activity regulations reiterates the Faculty Committee's refusal to lift the barriers to Radcliffe membership in College organizations, although twice within the year the council urged that the Administration make 'Cliffe students eligible...