Word: lift
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gets a greater lift at breakfast from Cartoonist Herblock than from her cup of coffee, I wish to express appreciation for TIME'S excellent and informative story on Philip Graham...
...seems to have the answer. The summer cocktail dress to the left sells for $39.95. The front is waffle pique in white, the back is cotton eyelet in pink. It boasts a halter neck, a bouffant skirt, and a bow in the back. If a girl chooses to lift umbrellas while waiting for a storm outside to quiet down, this beige-and-white striped raincoat (left), lined in olive-green with a pocket on the sleeve is hers for $25. Ideal for the girl (below) who wants to pet her oriental tiger or play with her orientals dolls are these...
...have been waging an unofficial fishing war against Japan since World War II, seizing hundreds of ships and imprisoning 3,796 men. This week a 17-man Japanese delegation led by shrewd, ambitious Agriculture and Forestry Minister Ichiro Kono arrived in Moscow to try to get the Russians to lift their latest restriction. Confidently Kono talked of a settlement in ten days. But unless he is prepared to make major political concessions, the hard-bargaining Russians are apt to drag out negotiations until the salmon are safely in their rivers and hundreds of Japanese fishermen are ruined...
Your article on Champagne Charlie [March 26] gave me quite a lift and guffaw. However, your adjective "military" as applied to Charlie's mustache missed the bull's-eye a bit; perhaps your writer is a youngster who doesn't happen to have seen Kaiser Wilhelm's mustache...
...sophisticated neighbor. When her son acquires an attractive young tutor, she half tumbles, half pushes herself into love. Discovering that her young ward is also drawn to the tutor, Natalia jealously tries to marry her off elsewhere. Though all this gives the heartfree tutor's ego a great lift, matters get fairly strenuous for him, and he finds it simplest to go away. Others go away too, for other reasons, leaving Natalia behind with a mild case of heart break, a lady's-sized frustration...