Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heaven. But they have turned Tibet into a hell on earth." Another speaker charged that "the British imperialists and Indian expansionists instigated the Tibetan upper-strata reactionary clique to carry out a traitorous armed rebellion . . . We want to warn the Indian expansionists . . . Please be more clear-minded; do not lift a rock that will squash your own feet...
...Boston Symphony, plans to invite passers-by in to conduct behind closed doors. Actually, home conducting may be a healthy thing, according to Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dr. Edmund Bergler: it provides the amateur with sublimating relief from the gnawing "infantile megalomania" that afflicts every man who ever wanted to lift a baton...
...Fokine's Les Sylphides (called Chopiniana by the Russians), an embarrassingly mawkish pantomime called A Blind Woman, which Prima Ballerina Ulanova almost managed to make acceptable. But most of the evening was given over to acrobatics: spinning, headlong leaps into the arms of supporting male dancers; a vaulting lift in which Ballerina Struchkova balanced light as a gull on the arched chest of her partner; a delicate tracery of pirouettes executed at stunning speed by the Bolshoi's youngest ballerina, 19-year-old Ekaterina Maximova. Unfortunately, the dancers' technique was more impressive than their material: among...
Hoopla Pays. In 1945, with only $60,000, Chalk founded the nonsked Trans Caribbean Airways by buying two DC-3s, and within two years it was earning $60,000 annually. Trans Carib expanded to lift thousands of refugees from Europe to Israel, tons of airmail from Europe to South America, flew charter trips from Johannesburg to Jerusalem. It grew so strong that in 1957 it won a regular U.S.-Puerto Rico route, became the first nonsked passenger airline in 20 years to win scheduled status (TIME, Dec. 2, 1957). Last year Trans Carib (including its major subsidiary, D.C. Transit) earned...
...Sweat." At first popular only in the East, handball was taken up by the Y.M.C.A.s, got a big lift in the '30s when the Federal Government's make-work programs built hundreds of outdoor courts. Inexpensive to play (a good pair of leather gloves costs only $5), the sport now claims some 5,500,000 participants. "When you're young, you play singles and run and sweat," says one handballing Chicago doctor. "Later you take up doubles, and when you're 70, you pick a strong partner and just putter around...