Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this record, drawn from rehearsal disks and tapes,*shows that the passion and honesty he brought to all music could lift the players to a remarkable pitch of performance...
Democrats who oppose lifting the 4¼% ceiling thought otherwise. They argued that the Treasury should have tried harder to sell the bonds to state and private pension funds by giving them longer advance notice of the issue. Growled Illinois Senator Paul Douglas: "I do not charge the Treasury with deliberately planning to have the issue fail. But I do say that if it had planned for failure, it would not have acted much differently." Douglas said that by not selling the bonds, the Treasury "may gleefully think it has won a battle; but they are going to lose...
...Poacher's Daughter. With the magic of language, Julie Harris and the players of the Abbey Theatre lift a banal comedy plot high off the green...
Only fortnight ago Dr. J. Harold Burn of Oxford suggested that the lift usually associated with smoking may be caused by an adrenalin-related hormone called nore-pinephrine?the same hormone that raises the hair on the tail of a scared cat. But most scientists agree that smoking becomes a habit because of emotional compulsions rather than any physical need...
...raise their hands to witness their "decisions," no one did. Undaunted, Billy gently asked again through his Swahili interpreter: "You have not understood what I said. Listen carefully: you have never repented of your sins. You are willing to pay the price even if it means death. Now lift your hands." Thousands of hands shot into...