Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hatters have added some crucial undercover work. To give the scarf a lift and banish the babushka look, milliners have concocted a hatlike frame of stiff net. Over the frame goes a kerchief, with the ends either knotted at the nape of the neck or softly folded in front. The result: the scarf hat, a runaway bestseller that can safely be placed on freshly set hair and is often well worth wearing for its own stylish sake...
...worried about his wife, who's expecting their third child, and bothered by his back, which was aching so badly that he wore a special orthopedic lift in one shoe (his right leg is 1 in. shorter than the left). Nicklaus, however, was the 4-1 betting favorite over the likes of four-time Champion Arnold Palmer (6-1) and South Africa's Gary Player (8-1), who had worked himself into a fine frenzy for the Masters by lifting weights, eating wheat germ, and boning up on Norman Vincent Peale's The Power of Positive Thinking...
Some women, to be sure, sail through menopause experiencing no more than changes in menstrual flow. But as post-menopausal aging continues, skin begins to lose its tone, bosoms their lift and bones their hardness. Fatty deposits may pile up in the arteries and leave a woman vulnerable to heart at tacks. Regular doses of estrogens, says the University of Chicago's Dr. M. Edward Davis, can delay the onset of such changes and diminish their impact. There is even a test-an adaptation of the familiar "Pap smear" for detecting uterine cancer-that indicates how much medication...
Dying in Rapallo, Sir Max sought only to lift the spirits of his survivors with graceful gestures and jests. "How different," he murmured, turning away with a groan from food he could not eat, "from the sounds made by the lions at feeding time!" The widowed Max's last act was one of kindness: he married his nurse-companion to assure her title to his modest estate...
Cleveland has no pitcher like Peters or Pappas who can be counted on for 15 or 20 wins, but has a number of promising youngsters and almost-over-the-hill old timers who could lift the Tribe into third place...