Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden promises made on the hustings of more red meat and fewer controls. In a local election, depression-ridden Lancashire had just voted Laborite for the first time in its history. Eleven of the rebellious Tory backbenchers seized on the Lancashire slump to demand that Chancellor Rab Butler lift the purchase tax on textiles. When he would not, four more Tories joined the revolt...
...good deal of moving back & forth between the airy study and the serious basement. The majority of Sheen's books (Peace of Soul, Lift Up Your Heart, Three to Get Married) are upstairs work, designed for the middle-brow reader. But some are serious, furnace-room philosophy (God and Intelligence, The Philosophy of Religion). This week Sheen published his 36th full-length book, The World's First Love, about the Virgin Mary. Like all his others, the book is dedicated to Mary - or, as he puts it in the dedication, "the Woman Who, in a world of Reds...
Adams gained considerably over last year to lift themselves out of the cellar, with 58 men indicating their preference for the Gold Coast...
When it falters dramatically, With a Song in My Heart manages to give itself a lift musically with such songs as Blue Moon, Tea for Two, Embraceable You, and an Americana medley of eleven tunes, rang ing from California, Here I Come to Deep in the Heart of Texas...
Though a poor picture so far as its moral purpose is concerned, Flesh and Fury has moments of excellent action. The ten minutes or so devoted to boxing scenes almost lift the picture out of triteness...