Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...score of political and economic reforms. The final showdown came when the generals insisted that leftist Senator Enrique Erro, who was suspected of having contacts among the Tupamaros, be stripped of his congressional immunity so that he could be tried by a military court. The Congress refused to lift his immunity or impeach the Senator -which Bordaberry last week cited as justification for his action. (Erro, luckily, was in Buenos Aires on a lecture tour at the time of the coup and thereby escaped arrest.) At week's end, an uneasy calm prevailed in Uruguay. Bordaberry imposed strict censorship...
Burlesque isn't dead as long as Sally Rand can lift a shocking pink ostrich-feather fan. At a benefit for Phoenix House, the Manhattan drug rehabilitation center, Sally, 69, got most of the midnight whistles from the Roseland crowd studded with names, from Senator Jacob Javits (in black tie) to ex-Evangelist Marjoe (in jeans...
...page 22) were under investigation by the Justice Department, the FBI, a federal grand jury or the U.S. Senate. The list will undoubtedly grow, and many could wind up behind bars for criminal activities committed while working for the President. These men had been selected by Nixon, helped lift him to power, took their ethical cues from him?and he had not yet publicly chastised any of them. Every day brought new details that beggared the suspicions or fantasies of Nixon's enemies. Nothing seemed unbelievable any longer...
While maintaining traditional secrecy about clandestine operations, Schlesinger is moving fast to lift the veil of conspiracy that has shrouded the agency. In an unprecedented move last month, he allowed a CIA agent, William Broe, the former chief of clandestine operations for the Western Hemisphere, to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the involvement of the CIA and the International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. in Chilean political affairs...
...Once the Sun-Times series began running, BGA called a press conference for Chicago's other three dailies as well as for radio and television reporters and confirmed the details of the Sun-Times story. This allowed the rivals to move in without being embarrassed by having to lift their facts right from the Sun-Times...