Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrombosis," Morrison explains, "was the traffic strangulation caused by five separate railroad stations, 144 grade crossings, the five-mile-long New Basin Canal with its lift bridges. Hypertension was the pressure on the downtown nerve center because of a lack of parking space and too great a concentration of people in a few buildings. The third of the municipal ailments was the slum cancer...
WASHINGTON, May 13--The United States prodded Russia again today to lift the veil of secrecy which bars 30 per cent of the Soviet Union from travel by foreigners...
...this nation, where Christianity and democracy are bywords," said the assembly, "it is unthinkable that a Christian should join himself to Klan or Council whose purpose is to gain its point by intimidation, reprisal and violence, or that he should lift no voice of protest against those who appeal to prejudice and spread fear...
...have been behaving as its designer intended. Instead of waiting until the nose was turned toward the earth, the second-and third-stage rockets must have fired while the missile was still headed for space. Their energy was not turned dutifully into low-altitude speed; it went to lift the small third stage to 600 miles. The official theory is that something must have gone wrong with the firing mechanism. Less official theorists connected with the X-17's manufacturers suspect that the mechanism was gimmicked deliberately to..prove what the missile could do in the altitude business...
...Most complex of the additional senses, with more paraphernalia in the brain than even the sense of sight, is No. 12, proprioception or position sense. Test it thus: "Close your eyes and slowly lift your arm. Although you are able to feel no touch sensation, still you can sense your arm's changing position in relation to the rest of your body...