Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confidence in its "think house." a converted country lodge where 20 Ph.D.-level scientists putter about in a small laboratory. Out of the "think house" has come an idea that may hold great promise for Rolls's future-plans for a small auxiliary jet engine that can lift 16 times its own weight straight up. Rolls's hope is that as the supersonic age unfolds, the great jetliners will use such auxiliary jets to land and take off vertically, thereby eliminating the need for ever longer and more expensive runways...
...magazines. (This kept the women loyal, attracted the men. and sent Marlboro sales soaring 120% in a single year.) And the TV puppets that depict a girl chasing a boy who has just dabbed Brylcreem on his hair (two girls if he uses two dabs) helped to lift that hair tonic from fourth to first place in the market in less than three years...
...picture will be shaken by it. Rage like a gale, action like an avalanche roar out of the screen, leveling all resistance. The scenes are short, the story swift, the cutting terse. Like a giant cauldron the screen boils with life, and Kurosawa's telescopic lenses, spooning deep, lift the depths to the surface and hurl the whole mess at the spectator's face. All the players play with succussive intensity, but Mifune, a magnificent athlete-actor, dominates the scene...
...home spun simplicity," then would he "unleash them in orchestrated expression of the great affection, respect, admiration and esteem in which I hold the distinguished minority leader. I would weave with words a magic spell over the Senate as he has done so many times. With words, I would lift the eyes of the Senators to the mountain peaks and the stars beyond, or I would lead them gently down a rustic road in Illinois. With words, I would lay bare the heart of a flower or pry open the fiery core of the atom that the Senate might appreciate...
...separate lines in the credit department at Montgomery Ward's in Kansas City, and the picture was much the same in other department stores around the country. Consumer installment credit, up $2 billion for the year, swelled to a record total of $45 billion in July and helped lift retail sales to a new peak of $19.7 billion...