Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued to caution against "the lack of continuity of the Good Neighbor policy," many Brazilian leaders were impressed by the weight of the problems U.S. foreign policy must face. Acheson, for his part, was impressed by Brazil. "Here is hope," he said. "I return to the U.S. with a lift of spirit which I have not had since I became Secretary of State...
...rush began last summer, after a visiting mining engineer took his wife down to look over the Free Enterprise Mine, near Boulder. She had such a severe case of bursitis that she could not lift her arm. But two days after the half-hour trip down the mine, she felt better and proclaimed herself "cured." Her husband figured that radiation from uranium ores was responsible. Soon they were back, with a friend who suffered from arthritis. After an hour at the mine's 85-ft. level, she too felt better...
...stock. Its special research jobs for corporations, ad agencies, unions, etc. now account for about 5% of its income; the rest comes from Counterattack subscriptions. But by next fall, Keenan, who now has a controlling interest, expects to put out a new product that may give business a lift. He is working on a directory, bigger and broader in scope than Red Channels, that will list people, industry by industry, who have lent their names to or been connected with Communist and front organizations...
...real measure of Ike's first days in politics stretched beyond handshakes, delegate counts and party workers. By laying down the values and convictions of his own faith, Ike Eisenhower had already done much to lift the 1952 political campaign toward his own high level of character. For that, win or lose, the U.S. could be grateful...
...Embassy, and a flying visit from Eighth Army Commander Van Fleet. Said Rhee blandly: "There is no connection between politics and the arrest of the Assemblymen . . . The arrests will continue." Vice President Kim Sung Soo resigned in protest. The National Assembly voted 96 to 3 to lift martial law. But many Assembly members, afraid to go home, slept in the old Shinto shrine which serves as Assembly chamber. The next day Rhee's new Home Minister. tough Lee Bum Suk, sent a battalion of the South Korean National Police to Pusan...