Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That Left-Out Feeling. Even if the Russians should resist this temptation, the prospect of a U.S.-Soviet ICBM standoff gave Europeans a nervous, left-out feeling. "The two big boys," said an official of West Germany's Defense Ministry, "must in the very nature of the situation lift their eyes and look straight across at one another, not noticing the in-betweens like ourselves so much. The arrival of long-range rockets implies the devaluation of American bases abroad and hence the downgrading of places like Germany. As a concomitant, one must assume less interest in such suddenly...
Harvard's approach to the subject, by offering many courses comparing British and American writing, has kept U.S. literature in just this perspective. The distinguished men who have taught it here have done much to lift American literature from the "abominable library of hell" and set it well on the road to being ensconced in the library of quite an other place.PERRY G. E. MILLER...
...Artificial respiration is to be by the back-pressure, arm-lift method (TIME, Dec. 17, 1951) instead of the Schaeffer prone-pressure method...
...dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite all that the ballet did not get across its tale of a rejected princess (Ballerina Beriosova) and a prince who has been transformed into a salamander, Composer Britten's dry, percussive, deftly syncopated score never provided the needed emotional lift...
...professionally they often wish that the atmosphere would quietly go away. Even when the air is clearest, it contains irregularities that smear out the sharpness of telescopic photographs. Since there is no way to chase the atmosphere away from an astronomical observatory, the next best thing would be to lift the observatory above the troublesome part of the atmosphere. This trick was done for the first time last week by Project Stratoscope of the Office of Naval Research...