Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven years as Premier of Japan, 76-year-old Shigeru Yoshida has done more than any other Japanese to lift up his people from the rubble of defeat. He has faithfully steered Japan's new democracy between the extremes of left and right. He has led Japan, without bitterness, into the Western alliance...
Stair Climber. A two-wheeled, power-driven hand truck has been developed by the Valley Craft Products Inc., Lake City, Minn. to take heavy loads up or down stairs or ramps. A special ratchet mechanism allows the "Stair Cart" to climb stairs, is powerful enough to lift a 200-lb. load straight up a 4-ft. wall. Price: about...
...equestrian Olympic team since 1912, West Germany established a 30,000 member riding association. West German breeders and trainers worked patiently with whatever material they could find, achieved miracles with gentle handling. (Says Dr. Rau about Germany's Mexican rivals: "They use wires and poles to make them lift their legs. The horses learn, jä, but through fear.") Said Winner Winkler to an American newsman last week: "You have wonderful horses, but you do not organize, you do not train enough. We work harder than anybody...
...prolific Negro composer and cultural leader who (in partnership with brother James Weldon Johnson and Song-and-Dance Man Bob Cole) flooded the nation's music halls with more than 500 songs in the golden heyday of vaudeville (Under the Bamboo Tree), composer of the "Negro national anthem," Lift Every Voice and Sing, collector and arranger of spirituals; in Manhattan...
...routine musicomedy, and the lyrics are of the sort that rhyme "baritone" with "aware o'tone." Even so, as crackpots go, Louis Calhern is a Ming vase, and Evelyn Varden provides at least one fine moment. At the Mr. Universe contest, while Steve Reeves is straining to lift the crucial bar bell, she glares at Purdom and hisses: "Don't just sit there! Hold the good thought...