Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rock and Art Allen waited tensely at home plate, the dog's unruly charges were let loose in far center field. Shouted Allen: "Go on wide away!" In a furry blur, Rock shot off on his "outrun," circling wide and closing in slowly for the "lift." As the sheep testily pawed the turf, Rock calmly fixed them with a mesmeric eye. This nearly hypnotic power is the proud sheep dog's most important quality, and sheepmen claim that a dog must be born with it; if he does not have it, i.e., is "loose-eyed," he can never...
From Denver last week, President Eisenhower sternly ordered agency heads in Washington to "take every possible step" to pare expenditures during fiscal 1954. As news dispatches told it, the directive was aimed at avoiding a special session of Congress to lift the $275 billion debt ceiling which Congress refused to raise three weeks ago. Actually, Eisenhower was looking farther ahead: "You will be expected to make substantial reductions in your requests ... for the fiscal year...
...woman tried to get her invalid sister out of a crumbling house; she knelt to pray, could not lift her sister again, and had to leave her behind. A young couple ran back into their swaying house to save their two-month-old baby; they were killed by the falling roof, but the baby, protected by his overturned crib, was saved. Next day the earth shook again, and many fled for the hills in fear that the island would slide beneath the sea. Panic-stricken Cephalonia police radioed to the mainland: "We are all sinking . . . The inhabitants ... are mad with...
...night last December, Emma Miller, 18, stole out of her parents' house, wearing a sinful pink blouse and a blue skirt. She got a lift into town and eventually found a job as a houseworker. One Sunday afternoon last month, her friend Anna Yoder, 18, turned up at Emma's apartment in an Amish bonnet and with a yen to cut loose, too. "I cut her hair and washed . . . and set it," said Emma. "I put makeup on her and dressed her in my clothes...
...Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School. Since then, Joe Lobo, an engraver who lives above his own shop, has been working overtime to finance his daughter's travel to tournaments. Nowadays Lesbia also gets a helping hand from admiring fellow Texans, who give her a lift to tournaments, sometimes arrange for her to stay in private homes...