Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ministration that was distinguished, as one observer put it, "for an everlasting aptitude for ineptitude." Democrats made the most of his tactlessness, e.g., although he had conscientiously investigated the severe economic distress in Maine's coastal area, he had remarked that the people would have to "lift themselves by their bootstraps." After naming his campaign manager to Maine's Supreme Judicial Court, Cross curtly informed newsmen that the governor was "not required to make any explanation" of court selections...
...their empty offices, reading detective stories because the Chinese will let them do nothing else. The golf courses where Englishmen had played, the clubs where billiard balls had clicked, were silent and desolate. As for reports that things are now a little easier, one businessman snapped: "Oh, yes, the lift boy says 'Good morning' to you again, but they are still taking away the lift...
...having lost her escort boat in the darkness. Through the long night, Florence and little Marilyn churned along, against choppy waves. The youngster was frightened. Once an eel fastened onto her leg, but she kicked it off. By morning, Marilyn was weary, and badly in need of a mental lift. Then she heard that the great Florence Chadwick had given up, sickened by oil slicks and rough water. Marilyn plowed on. Winds blew her off course, but she fought back...
...Runyon made shy overtures, but "his stumbling attempt to play the palsey Pop [was] so patently gawky" that Damon Jr. thought his father was just performing an unpleasant chore. Even Runyon's presents were wrong. Damon Jr. was afraid of the huge electric train and could not even lift the sailboat with a five-foot mainmast...
RUSSIA'S TRADE with the West will pick up. Under British pressure, 15 nations (including the U.S.) have agreed to lift export controls on crude and diesel oils, light machine tools, farm tractors, copper wire, air conditioners, mica, tungsten, some 150 other products. Still under embargo: 170 strategic items, including weapons, uranium and airplanes...