Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trucks and volunteers stood ready in the cold and snow to fill and pile them up. More than 11 million bags were on hand by the time the spring tides rose again at week's end. Said Wing Commander Masterman, who organized Operation King Canute, as the sandbag-lift was called: "It's been a delight. It shows the thing works in peacetime as well...
...dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions from heroic phrasing to the coloquial are smooth and consistent for the most part...
Picnic is a good play to see. It is both well-written and well-executed. There is nothing in it, however, that will lift one out of the commonplace rut and place him in another frame of existence. Neither are there characters on the stage who would exist only in an author's well-constructed, never-existent world. To do this, Mr. Inge would have to be an artist. Instead, he is a talented censor, able to sort and to rearrange the various trivia of living, conversation and action, combining a significant grouping of these, to create an excellent reproduction...
...even today's players, nursed along as specialists and weaned on two-platoon play, have turned against the system. Speaking for the majority, Columbia's record-breaking Passer Mitch Price explained: "You get a psychological lift from playing both ways. You're in the game more, and if you're pushed around on offense, you get a chance to even up on defense." Added Dartmouth Coach Tuss McLaughry, who coached Brown's famed "Iron Man" eleven of 1926: "The basic philosophy of the two-platoon system has been all wrong. Now we can go back...
...line of colognes (with bottles shaped like angels), dropped 500 basketed samples on pink and blue balloons from Bonwit Teller's roof. She developed a friction face wash (Beauty Grains) for clogged pores, found that "homogenized" raw silk was a good base for makeup, and made a Contour-Lift Film designed to firm up the jowls (at $5 a jar). Now & then, the FTC cracked down on her, ordered her to stop claiming that her Eye Lash Grower had any effect on growth, or that the egg content of her Egg Complexion Soap had any beneficial effect...