Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continue your study and critical analysis of the great international questions of our day . . . detect and pursue the ways [to] stability and solidarity," the President told the students. "Lift the eyes of men and women above the drab and desolate horizon of hate and fear and hopelessness . . . You believe in the brotherhood of man ... So believing and so united, you constitute the mightiest temporal force for good on this globe of ours...
...chance to puzzle through a bewildering maze of primary ballots. Nearly 60% of the registered voters decided it was worth the effort-and in terms of nationally interesting results, it was. Oregon cleared the way for one of this year's roughest Senate election brawls, gave a significant lift to one Democratic presidential candidate, slammed down hard on another, handed a meaningful vote of confidence to Dwight Eisenhower and-for a surprise in the election-to Vice President Richard Nixon...
Oregon was by all odds Stevenson's most impressive showing so far. It helped him recover some of the prestige he had lost through primary defeats in New Hampshire and Minnesota, gave his candidacy a psychological lift that should help him in the vital primaries in Florida (see below) and California...
...Howard Hughes if he gets CAB permission. Already planning a big Florida aircraft plant (TIME, April 23), Hughes wants his Hughes Tool Co. to add planes to its electronics business, build 25 faster, longer-ranged jets for Trans World Airlines, which he also controls. First step: get CAB to lift a 1944 ruling that T.W.A. may not buy more than $10,000 worth of equipment annually from Hughes Tool...
...what prevailed over these misgivings was a universal feeling that NATO needs a new lift to face a changing world. It may not be the best combination of nations for its new tasks, but it is the only cluster of Western powers that has real meaning for the European public: it represents to Europeans the one place where they have sworn their vows of fealty to the West, and, just as important, the one place where the U.S. has by solemn treaty pledged to them its strength and support...