Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...countries, and the higher goals may allow some stockpile" purchasing abroad. The Randall Report, the Milton Eisenhower Report on Latin America and the Capehart Report on defense production all recommended increased stockpiling as a sound way of bolstering wobbly foreign economies. Last week the Administration gave one neighbor a lift by agreeing to buy up 100,000 tons of Chilean copper...
...even with all the boredom of interplanetary travel, a lusty earthman can still lift his voice in a space chanty...
...need for runways of any kind, and to land tail-down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply by virtue of tremendous lift in their counterrotating propellers. The fighters, powered by turbo prop engines, would assume a normal, horizontal attitude after being airborne...
...from a gleam in an oscilloscope to the island-sinking hydrogen bomb. At the end of his speech he remarked: "The nations of the world have today the means to destroy each other. They also have, in this same nuclear energy, a new resource which could be used to lift the heavy burdens of hunger and poverty that keep masses of men in bondage to ignorance and fear...
...drama of the early Kabuki called Shibaraku (Wait a moment), first seen in Tokyo in 1697, is still performed (see pictures opposite). Its hero, like many others in rough & tumble Kabuki tales, is a typical Oriental Superman who can lop off the heads of many opponents at a blow, lift houses with one finger, crush temple gates with his bare hands. The plot: a villainous lord, who has usurped the rule of the country, orders the decapitation of some people accused of losing a precious sword. Suddenly the brave hero appears, shouting "Shibaraku!" He then exposes the true culprit...