Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most powerful and visible figures in a Government starved for leadership. Now he is putting his credibility on the line almost daily to declare, in press release after news conference after TV interview, that the shortage is only too real and will not go away even after the Arabs lift their embargo on oil shipments...
...Neill wrote this play as a form of absolution for his brother. As with Long Day's Journey into Night, it was another attempt "to make peace with my dead," to lift the curse of the O'Neill family through the transfiguring insight and purgation of drama. Quintero has beautifully orchestrated the themes of sin, remorse, guilt, self-damnation and death that haunted the profoundly per/ turbed spirit of O'Neill...
...Mansfield, a mining town near Nottingham: "Heath has love and a kiss on the cheek for the oil sheiks, but he has a slap in the face for the British miner." Adds a miner's wife: "Brother Heath's making it seem that if the miners lift their ban, then petrol rationing will be unnecessary. I just can't believe that. We're being used as scapegoats. The only thing he hasn't blamed us for is the Arab-Israeli...
...curious time, rife with opportunity that might lift a President to greatness if he seized the moment, but paralyzing for a leader who appears to have something to hide or cannot find his way beyond his own interests to the hearts of the people...
...crisis flows from an unresolved flaw in British society of the '70s: the inequitable distribution of the rewards of labor. The inequalities have become all the more painfully abrasive during the Heath government's concerted drive to lift the British economy to a new plateau of sustained growth. It was a central part of Heath's strategy that Britain's labor unions could be persuaded to hold down their pay demands. But in observing the lavish profits that have accrued to Britain's financial and property speculators over the past year, the unions have...