Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open his fingers one by one. Then the gun was jammed against the car roof. He was terribly heavy, as dead bodies are supposed to be. When I finally managed to drag him out, the road was under fire. The ambulance driver then helped me lift the corpse onto a stretcher and we put it into the ambulance...
...this internecine gamesmanship, Detroit's basic message is that the two biggest automakers confidently expect two back-to-back years of more than 6,000,000 sales. Only once before, in 1959-60, has that been achieved. Auto stocks went up last week on Wall Street, helping to lift the Dow-Jones industrial average. It closed the week at 613.74, thus finally recovering all the ground lost since the hectic morning of Blue Monday...
...hour ahead of schedule, a solid line of traffic surged eastward toward the sector boundary. Near the Wall, the drivers jammed their cars into every inch of parking space, got out to cover their license plates (so as not to be identified by East German guards) and to lift their hoods (to expose their klaxons). Then they sat back and waited with hands on horns...
...fair has given a lift to business throughout the Northwest, whose lumber and fishing industries have been hurting...
Within a few years he was dabbling in a curious pseudo science called the "lift of inhalation," which maintained that Greek art owed its excellence to the fact that the thorax, not the brain, was the center of the emotions and that all Greek figures were shown consciously inhaling rather than exhaling. After painting the murals for International House at Columbia University in 1924. he suffered a heart attack, went alone to Europe to recuperate. While painting in Florence in 1928, he died. So deeply had he drawn the veil of mystery over his last years that his wife...