Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rundown: General Motors, which completely restyled its Buicks, Oldsmobiles and Cadillacs this year, will only face-lift those makes for 1955. Cadillac's engine will be jacked up from 230 h.p. to nearly...
...Frost wanted a vertical take-off-which is quite a trick. Even such a powerful jet engine as Pratt & Whitney's J-57, with about 10,000 Ibs. of thrust, can barely lift its own weight vertically. After countless wind-tunnel tests, Frost finally found what he thinks is a solution in an aerodynamic principle known as "the Coanda effect...
...Currency Committee turned him down. Eisenhower asked Congress to free Government interest rates on housing. Again, the committee turned him down. Dumped also were Eisenhower's trial plan to substitute low-cost home-ownership (with 40-year mortgages fully insured) for subsidized public housing, and his plan to lift the ceiling on FHA home-repair loans from $2,500 to $3,000. Even the parts of the Eisenhower program that have been generally approved in committee- e.g., a temporary continuation of public housing, FHA guarantees for bigger loans, lower down payments and 30-year mortgages on new houses-still...
...Music is a handmaid to religion," says Father O'Malley. "It is supposed to lift the soul and heart...
...seven black days, the West's position totally collapsed. It was destroyed not by the Communists but by the West itself. ¶ Churchill publicly proclaimed that Britain would not lift a finger to save IndoChina until all possibility of making a deal at Geneva had been exhausted. By a deal, the British delegation made clear, they meant partition. ¶In Washington, President Eisenhower talked of a modus vivendi, told his press conference that the West was caught between the unattainable and the unacceptable. The most the U.S. could ask for in Indo-China, he said, was a practical basis...