Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orion version slated for 1959 production and an improved Olympus turbojet engine rated at a whopping 16,000 Ibs. of thrust. De Havilland uncorked a new gadget: a Supersprite rocket engine that weighs only 600 Ibs., yet can produce some 4,000 Ibs. of thrust for 40 sec. to lift heavily laden planes off short runways...
...Borodino, he runs awkwardly along a hillside, trying to peer ahead through a tangle of shrubbery until at last he stops breathless on a vantage point. The camera becomes his dazzled eye as it reveals spread out before him the Russian lines and advanced batteries, then a wide, uptilted lift of plain, and finally, in the distance, the massed columns of the French moving into position with, beyond them, still more columns suggested by the exploding flashes of sun light on bayonets. Director King Vidor has a master's hand with the steady, drumbeat assault of infantry battalions...
Only at the end did Nixon permit himself a reference to that which weighed heaviest on him. "The skill of the fine doctors who are attending my father," he said, "could not possibly have equaled the lift which he has received from the events for which you were responsible yesterday. For that we thank you. Goodbye and good luck...
...years of promoting Labrador's famed iron mines and the titanium mines at Havre St. Pierre, Que. As he sees it, the boom has just begun. Arrival of the Canadian National Railways' branch line by year's end seems certain to give the bonanza a new lift. And out in the bush to the north of Chibougamau, a crew of college engineering students hand-picked by Mills are busily prospecting for new strikes. Said Mills last week: "I've waited 22 years for this boom, and it was worth waiting for. I've been paid...
...Lift That Bale. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Margaret Dudley won a divorce after testifying that her husband charged her 50? a day for driving her to the fields where they worked picking cotton...