Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the missile-testing station at Cape Canaveral, Fla.. a modified Viking rocket soared up 125 miles one night last week, its bright exhaust glowing briefly like a wrong-way shooting star. Its flight was a partial test of the "vehicle" that will lift the U.S. artificial satellite in 1958, and the instruments that will steer it, into its orbit around the earth. When the satellite is established there, one of its most important jobs will be to keep track of the global movements of the white clouds far below. It will then be busy at the homely...
...sophisticated master of ceremonies, and Barrault, as the poet. Few actors would have enough courage to make a declaration of love while lying on their backs on the floor, and enough talent to make the scene come off. Barrault, however, does. His work and that of Max Ophuls lift a light film above the general run of French comedies...
...delightful is the company's apparent concern (as expressed in the Preface) for our knowledge in how to dial. Step 1. "Look in the directory for the number [you have your choice of several]. If the information is not in the directory, dial 'Information'," (which seems logical enough). Step.2. "Lift the handset." (Yes.) Step 3. "Listen for the dial tone before dialing. This steady humming sound tells you that the dial equipment is ready for your call." (Boy! This is one hum we want to hear talk!) Step 4. "Go to heck." (This is surely a misprint, else, first steps...
...defense expert summed up Wilson's memoranda as "a lopping off of the Army's ability to move and, in a measure, to fight." Wilson's statement that the Air Force "currently provides adequate airborne lift in the light of currently approved strategic concepts" is "disagreeably misleading," the author said...
...simply outstanding," the newspaper commented. "In his junior year, just as he was about to blossom into his full potential, he hit a series of injuries that slowed him up. This year he returned to his natural position in the 'T', and proceeded to make sports-experts around Boston lift their eyebrows," the paper added...