Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...truck driver who had lost both legs had learned to stand and was starting to walk. A mother of two who had been scarcely able to lift a finger because of arthritis mastered the controls of a wheelchair, flexed her hands, learned to walk a few steps...
Napoleon supposedly said that an army marched on its stomach. But in modern war, an army-and a nation at war-rides on its freight cars. In World War II, U.S. railroads hauled 142 million carloads of freight, the biggest cargo lift in history, and barely had enough cars to squeak...
...Lift. Romance, heavy-handed propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...
...must be postwar cars with reinforced tops. The drivers must be 21 or over, are required to wear safety belts and crash helmets. The cars are known to the trade as "modified," i.e., souped up with high-powered coils and condensers, shaved-down cylinder heads, big-mouthed carburetors, high-lift racing camshafts. Heavy right-side springs and extra-large tires give a bit more balance for the unbanked turns...
...Lift the ceilings on recruiting for all services (total present strength: 46,889) to enlist up to 8,000 more regulars. ¶Commission three more ships for the navy and speed up production of F-86's for the air force...