Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...France, with $4.3 billion, got more than twice as much as any other over the last ten years. The Pentagon explains that most of the funds went out in the early 1950s, when the French were fighting in Indo-China. France contends that it well deserves a large aid lift because it budgets so much for defense, 8% of its gross national product v. the U.S.'s 10% of its G.N.P. (But most of France's defense spending goes to wage the war in Algeria.) Next highest recipient in the 1950s was Italy, which got $1.8 billion...
...more limited specialties there are similar complaints of Balkanization. Pathologists, shut off in their laboratories studying specimens from patients they never see, resent the radiologists' monopoly of tracer studies done with radioactive isotopes. Plastic surgeons, whose practice is supposed to be little more than skin-deep, can hardly lift the scalpel without trespassing. Said one: "Every operation in my field crosses other specialties' borderlines." But it works both ways: the plastic men complain that ear-nose-throat specialists are too willing to bob noses...
...talking about Bandleader Clyde McCoy, who for years has been regarded by the cool set as perhaps the moldiest fig (jazz lingo for oldfashioned) ever to lift a trumpet. But moldy or not, Trumpeter McCoy has a sizable following, passionately devoted to the chirpy, foot-jiggling style the fans think they remember from the misty corridors of their youth. Last week, after a five-year layoff, "Clyde McCoy and His Waa Waa Dixieland Band" were winding up a successful stand at Manhattan's Roundtable before taking off on a Midwest tour, during which they expect to cash...
...American Labor Council," which aims to embrace the 1,500,000 Negro members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. With such numbers, Randolph could press to crack open the all-white locals (in the building trades, among papermakers, boilermakers, etc.), get Negroes into apprentice training programs now closed to them, and lift Negroes to loftier positions in the A.F.L.-C.I.O. command. Chapters of Randolph's all-Negro group are abuilding from New York to the Pacific Coast. Despite Meany's opposition to such racially based splinter groups, the founding convention is set for Detroit this May. And Meany...
...slow burn began when Johannesburg's Golden City Post, most respected of the country's African newspapers, reported that there had been an earlier severe cave-in shortly before the big blast and rockfall. Some 40 miners scrambled for the safety of the lift cage. Half were forced back at the cage entrance, reported the Post; 20 others reached the surface but found their way blocked by supervisors who ordered them back into the tunnel. Two natives who refused to go back were clapped into the mine's own jail on charges of insubordination, said the Post...