Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three bestsellers-Nugget, Playboy and the Congressional Record!' " Dickinson hardly seemed to care that many people, North and South, viewed such stories with great suspicion. Although congressional speeches are privileged, he said that he would repeat last week's charges in the Montgomery Coliseum, which would automatically lift his protection against a slander suit. "If they're not true," said he, "then I'm willing to be branded irresponsible...
...till dusk, Red China's 38-player squad hammered away at the ball, pausing for tea and calisthenics every half-hour or so. "These Chinese," marveled Japan's former World Champion Ichiro Ogimura, "play basketball and volleyball and do special exercises. They practice gymnastics to develop agility, lift weights to build up certain muscles." They also keyed themselves to fever pitch emotionally. China's Hsu Yin-sheng explained that his forehand was so powerful because he looked on a Ping-Pong ball "as though it were the head of Chiang Kai-shek...
...capsule Molly Brown splashed into the Atlantic 60 miles short of its scheduled landing spot? Last week NASA's Dr. Homer Dotts firmly dispelled all rumors of a possible goof by Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young. According to Dr. Dotts, the capsule did not develop as much lift during re-entry as had been predicted from preflight wind-tunnel tests. With less gliding ability, the capsule plunged earthward on a steep trajectory that aimed her short of the target. By the time Grissom had calculated the trajectory on his computer, and realized that Molly was getting less lift...
...best, Morison has the power to lift his country's past from textbook constriction and invest it with his own insight and understanding. He is notably effective in writing about the Puritan settlers, whom he interestingly compares with 19th century Roman Catholic Americans, about the vigorous life of the colonial seaports, about the true spirit of the American Revolution "a civil war," he calls it, reluctantly entered upon by men who "were thinking of preserving and securing the freedom they already enjoyed." Yet he is oddly disappointing on the Civil War, and some of his afterthoughts seem to trespass...
...Donnell slugged a home run in the top of the twelfth inning Saturday afternoon to lift Harvard to an 8-7 victory over Columbia and give the Crimson a split in a doubleheader that started in New Jersey and ended in New York. That morning, Harvard was throttled 8-0 by Princeton in a replay of a game that been scheduled for Friday but was postponed because of wet grounds...