Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to lift Bolivia's political picture out of the darkness and showing it as clearly as possible to the public, my heartiest congratulations to TIME...
...protruding edges of the slab that topped the altar. All day and all night they worked at the jacks. By morning they had raised the slab some two feet, only to find another lid fitted flush in the top of the block. With crowbar and ropes, they managed to lift the second...
...juvenile consumption and notifies booksellers of this fact, it in effect bans the book from any public sale. If a dealer is warned of the obscenity of a specific publication, he will not in most cases make a distinction between an adult and a youth: he will simply lift the book and return it to the distributor, taking no chances...
...time has lived with them for most of her life. For her they are alive. And it is entirely conceivable that if one day her door should open, bringing a visitor named J. S. Bach into her instrument-cluttered, timeless room, Wanda Landowska would not so much as lift her bird's-wing eyebrows in surprise. She would probably continue the conversation she has been having with him across the strings for the past half-century...
...bill is somewhat saved by the co-feature, "The Gambler and the Lady," in which Dane Clark turns in a midget Humphrey Bogart performance. A few original twists in the plot and several good character portrayals help lift this picture from the second feature category...