Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jingoism got a big lift when I read about that increasingly famous institution, the Hingham town dump, an out-of-door cracker barrel where you meet your friends and neighbors of a Sunday [March 30]. Our youngest son, at the age of four, used to ask every out-of-town guest in true booster fashion, "Have you seen the dump...
...News and take sole ownership in a town they entered only four years ago. But buying the News made the kind of economic sense that Jim Knight likes to make: fusing the mechanical and business office operations of the two papers will give the ledgers a real lift. As for the editorial side, Jim Knight plans to let each paper keep its individual character, with the News continuing as a folksy, locally oriented, feature-conscious paper, while the Observer moves on a somewhat more serious regional orbit. Jim Knight says he expects the papers to compete on the news side...
...Clouds Lift. With the forged letters as a pretext, Red China embarked on one of the most massive man hunts ever. Detachments of the estimated 300,000 Red troops in Tibet began to drive painfully into the rugged land south of the great Tsangpo River, which still remained in the hands of the Khamba guerrillas. Supply planes roared over Lhasa; other planes dropped paratroopers to seal off the passes north of the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, which the Dalai Lama might conceivably be heading for. To stifle all word of what was going on, the Chinese surrounded the Indian consulate...
...civilian suit, rode in an open blue convertible escorted by plumed lancers down troop-lined streets to the Congress building, to make his yearly state-of-the-nation speech. There he announced his "aim of perfecting a durable, democratic regime." He said the government would introduce bills to lift the state of siege, proclaim a general political amnesty, lift restrictions on freedom of expression, adopt a new constitution...
...risen from 1.6% to 6.2% in two years. This week it made its 20th successive increase in production in 1½ years. Yet the public is still ordering Ramblers faster than American can produce them. Romney is in the midst of a $10 million expansion program that will lift the company's capacity to 440,000 cars a year...