Word: lift
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were gathered for the Congress Party's 68th annual convention. Bhubaneswar had worn a festive air. Green, white and saffron party flags fluttered from hundreds of flagpoles, and pictures of Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi adorned shop windows. On his arrival, Nehru was so weak that aides had to lift him from a helicopter, and when he finally was able to walk, he shuffled away with back bent and head bowed. At a flag-raising ceremony, his words were almost inaudible. At the first party sessions, Nehru was quiet and subdued. Then he collapsed...
...break in came to naught, the pack besieged the joint for four days, running their own beauty contest among the babes on Copacabana Beach and checking the trunks of all departing cars to make sure she wasn't smuggled out. Even a writ of habeas corpus failed to lift the siege. At last she emerged to meet the panting press. And what did BB think of Brazilian reporters? "I've never seen such savages," she snarled...
...since the Pharaohs built the Pyramids. Carved in the sandstone cliff above the Germans' camp are the 3,300-year-old monuments of Abu Simbel - two cavernous temples and ten mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled on a higher location, where the waters will not reach them when the High Dam is completed in 1970 at Aswan, 180 miles downstream...
...conned myself into thinking I was a liberal. The rude awakening occurred less than a year ago, when a Negro writer and his family sought an apartment in my building and were turned down. I had met him. He was bright and a gentleman. Yet I didn't lift a finger to help him. That's all changed now." In California, Real Estate Dealer Richard S. Hallmark quit his job in protest over the commonly accepted methods of restricting Negro house buying. "I had never sold to a Negro family in my life, but it grated...
...most successful Chevrolet television commercials runs for one minute with no words and only soft music; it simply shows a boy and girl pleasantly flirting on the beach -with a shiny Impala hardtop and a Corvette Sting Ray in the background. Ford is receiving a lift among the young from a new hit twist tune that tells about a hot rodder who took his Ford-powered Cobra out to the track to race Chevrolet Sting Rays and Jaguar XK-Es. Sings the rodder...