Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...responsibilities should be a share of the free world's arms burden. Another would be to permit more of the fruits of success to reach its own people, thus easing some of the pressure on exporters. To this end, Germany is already working on a plan to lift some import restrictions and cut taxes in order to raise purchasing power. In such ways it can insure its own future as a working capitalist democracy and reduce the threat of a trade war that might split the West in a time of crisis...
...cranked up and squared off," recalled Brigadier General William L. ("Jerry") Lee. "I poured the coal on and, about halfway up the sod incline, decided to let the flaps down to get more lift. I got off the ground all right . . . but I couldn't get enough altitude to get over the hill at the end of the strip." Lee was a lieutenant at the time, on duty in the Philippines...
...partly paralyzed victims of past polio epidemics, three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food...
...crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill...
...more hardy, Vermont offers a lot of snow and a lot of trails. Topping the list is Stowe (Mount Mansfield) which reports good to excellent skiing on 21 to 40 inches of base with five inches of backed power. Stowe has the longest chair lift in the East, in addition to a T-bar lift and a whole slew of rope tows, providing many excellent trails for novice to expert. Nearby, Mad River Glen, With its mile long lift, sports a mountain almost as big as Stowe's, but with waiting lines much shorter. Big Bromley and Pico Peak always...