Word: lift
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thor-Able to Lift Station...
...them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week." They rattled the walls with hymns, cries of "Viva Peron!" and "Viva Eva!" Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas. Next day he led Peronistas before a visiting Vatican cardinal to petition the Pope to lift Peron's excommunication...
...Robert Oppenheimer lingers on chiefly because he swallowed the key to the Oppenheimer case-his own character. One of the strangest, most mystifying glimpses of that character was furnished by the "Chevalier incident," which played a substantial part in the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision to lift Oppenheimer's security clearance. Now one of the principals in that incident has written a novel, and there is more than a hint from both author and publisher that the book will explain the Oppenheimer mystery. Because the Oppenheimer case, perhaps second only to the Hiss case, holds lingering drama...
...team must play football vastly superior to what it has shown in its earlier games, and the encouraging factor is that the team is certainly capable of such improvement. To rise to the challenge and knock off the recognized giant of the League would give an incalculable lift to the team's confidence and could set the stage for a belated rally...
Many carriers who must wait their turn on jet-production lines are anxious to hold off until they receive their planes and are ready to compete. Both Alitalia and Japan Air Lines, which get their first jets next spring, do not want to lower fares or lift surcharges on jet flights (first class: $30 to Japan, $20 to Europe) in their areas immediately. Says one Japan Air Lines man: "We'll cut when we have our own jets, and that's the position of any airline without jets...