Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship's remains, the team has pieced together portions of video tape to confirm that the Monitor's broken hull lies upside down in the water, partly buried under 3½ ft. of sediment. But the ruins of the ship are so fragile that attempts to lift them from the ocean depths would probably cause the 112 year-old vessel to fall apart, and for now it will have to remain at rest in the deep...
Harvard's Joe Antenucci responded with two excellent point-winning blocks and a spike to the far corner to lift Harvard almost single-handedly into a 13-12 lead...
...bloody. Nothing seemed to be broken. She was shaking with sobs, afraid to look at the fight. Gene asked her if she was hurt and tried to lift her head. We could see, when her face was turned, that she could not have been more than 16 or 17. And she looked small for that...
...awaiting their "orders." First there's the kid--the big, gawky out-of-it one from high school who joined the Navy to find his manhood but only found "men" who made more fun of him. He is a kleptomaniac, and before the action begins he tries to lift $40 from the polio contribution box at camp. Polio is the commander's wife's favorite charity. The kid is court-martialed, dishonorably discharged and sentenced to eight years in military prison...
...feisty competitor battled his way onto the Carnival teams, and now he was in the second seed. For Friday's race he drew starting spot 14 out of 70 plus competitors. Amidst the downpour, Adler with his rimless spectacles looked like a scholarly water rat, as the took the lift up the mountain to get ready for his start...