Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buses rolled passengerless along streets clogged with trudging Negroes, sympathetic white motorists of Johannesburg began more and more to stop and offer lifts. Strydom's police set up roadblocks to harass the drivers, checking and rechecking licenses and registrations, whipping out tape measures to see if the law providing a 15-in. space for each passenger was being observed, citing every letter of the law to delay the car-lift. In the cities themselves, police searched Negro hotels and the servant quarters of white homes to smoke out workers staying overnight without police passes. Railroads refused...
...Thompson's testimony was short and typically blunt. The oil crisis, said he, is a myth. Instead of sabotaging the oil lift by failing to boost production appreciably, Texas had done a "jam-up job," had helped make it "amazingly successful, all reports to the contrary notwithstanding." Texas was sorry that the world was angry at its actions. "We are accustomed to that," said Thompson. The facts were that the U.S. Government had not once officially demanded an increase in the allowable production set for the state's oilmen. The requests had come from Humble Refining...
...Oddly enough, Europe was less upset than the U.S. itself over the industry's laggard performance. Though oil stocks dwindled daily, Britain and the Continent were cheered by prospects of warmer weather and an early reopening of the Suez Canal. But as matters stood last week, the oil lift across the Atlantic seemed to be going from bad to worse. In seven days the U.S. averaged shipments of only 454,000 bbl. of petroleum products to Europe, of which barely 183,000 bbl. daily were crude oil, far below the figure of 500,000 bbl. daily...
...become so free that Gomulka, in alarm before the elections, tightened censorship. "The time has come," he warned Warsaw editors, "to find some good things to say. We'll self-criticize ourselves into self-liquidation." Despite Gomulka's election victory, newsmen do not expect him to lift press curbs for some time to come, since, as he explains, Poland must move carefully if the nation is not to imperil its hard-won gains. But Polish journalists, having tasted freedom, are still getting stones past the censor that would never see print in any other Communist country. One sure...
...with pen and rubber stamp), he rushed the trio off in search of a hotel. But not until day's end did weary Julius find a place that was prepared to admit Robert. Léon and Tzara-and even then, "they were taken up in the service lift." Such is the inhumanity of man to chimpanzees...