Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only high school in Clinton, Tenn. (pop. 3,700) was restricted to whites, and the Negro children had to ride 20 miles to school in nearby Knoxville (pop. 124,000). The Negroes thought their children should be allowed to stay in their own home town. Would the superintendent lift the bars at Clinton High...
Governor Arnall cleaned up the state educational system, ended the pardon racket, virtually wiped out the state debt. He launched a vigorous and successful "pro-Georgia" campaign to lift the state's economic level...
...Poet in the Subway" (as a sensational article in the New York World dubbed him) was about to get a lift. A book review helped to do it, mostly because the reviewer was President Theodore Roosevelt. His young son Kermit had sent him the revamped edition of Robinson's first book, and the excited T.R. prodded Scribner's into reissuing it. In his review in the Outlook, T.R. foreshadowed many a Robinson admirer since by admitting: "I am not sure I understand Luke Havergal; but I am entirely sure I like...
Sophomore defenseman Tony Patton scored first at 4:57 of the opening period on a long lift from the blue line, when Jim Colt screened Husky goalie Ray Picard...
...Huskies scored at 9:14 and 12:18 of the third period, and Dave Bell beat Brad Richardson on a corner lift in the sudden-death overtime.This was the shot that broke the Crimson's heart. Northeastern wing DAVE BELL stopped around the defense and whipped the puck (arrow) into the net to give the Huskies a 3 to 2 overtime triumph...