Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Brown didn't get that many shots on goal, Bertagna came up with some big saves. "Joey played one of his best games Saturday," Cleary said. "Coming up with the big ones like he did can really lift a team." Bertagna held off two break-away bids in the first period, and was equal to the task during some excellent Brown power play opportunities...
...incredible belch of flames against the night, ominous clouds of steam and smoke, and finally a thunderous, earth-shaking roar that assaulted the senses and numbed the minds of the 500,000 spectators gathered on nearby Florida beaches and highways. As the Apollo 17 Saturn rocket began to lift ponderously from Cape Kennedy's launch pad 39A, the entire sky was filled with an orange-pink glow, a false dawn against which gulls and pelicans wheeled and fluttered in aimless confusion. The awesome spectacle marked a fitting beginning to the mission of Apollo 17, which at week...
...added up to the beginnings of a thaw in relations between the two countries. Even if the thaw continues, both sides would have to concede a good deal more before diplomatic relations could be resumed. For openers, Nixon would most likely have to lift the U.S. ban on imports of Cuban sugar, and Castro would have to ease up on exporting subversion to other Latin American countries...
Boston University, who lost to Harvard 6-5 on November 6, trounced Cornell 9-0 last night at Ithaca, New York. In other college hockey action, Don Hearns scored on a 30-foot slap shot at 2:38 of sudden death overtime to lift R.P.I. to a 3-2 victory last night...
...race; '65 Chevies and second-hand Firebirds instead of the old '57 Chevy. They take pills and smoke a little dope and a few drop acid; but most of all they drink. They drink in bars or in alleys; beer after beer; shaking it hard to get a better lift. They wear Italian cut shoes and gaudy shirts and tight pants and they play basketball in Converse All-Stars with purple shoe-laces; an acquired habit from the blacks to the north. Downtown Chicago is virtually an unknown quantity; they buy at Lester's and Gasmans and the supermarts...