Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, in the small hours of the morning, De Gaulle recorded an appeal to be broadcast at dawn to the rebellious Europeans of Algeria. "This is a bad blow struck at France, in the heart of France," he began. "I have taken leadership of the state to lift up our country . . . I tell you plainly and in all simplicity that if I should fail in my task, the unity, the prestige, the fate of France will be compromised." The broadcast finished, he turned to an aide and asked: "What do you think of it?" Unhappily, the aide replied with...
...much as he liked baiting the kirk, as he made plain in such poems as The Court of Equity and The Fornicator, which are usually found in the sort of editions that are passed around privately. In his new comic novel, Scots Author Linklater has done his best to lift the quarantine...
...intact, and a weary worker came to the surface shaking his head, saying, "It will take us a week to get near them." All through the night, womenfolk, some wailing, others grimly tightlipped, stood clinging to a fence near the shaft, their eyes glued to the huge lift wheels whose movements signal an ascending cage. The Salvation Army held services of prayer for the grieving; the services were segregated, one for white relatives and one for blacks...
...LIFT IN BEER raised per capita intake in 1959 for first time since 1948, as sales bubbled up 4.8% to record 89 million bbl. Average consumer drank 15.5 gal. v. 15 gal. in 1958. Top brewers...
...SHIP will be built by Grumman Aircraft under $1,500,000 contract from Maritime Administration, which calls it one of the most significant advances in marine transport in 50 years. Powered by gas turbine engine, the all-aluminum, 104-ft. ship will carry 100 passengers, ride on hydrofoils that lift entire hull out of water...