Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarf caught in the engine of his snowmobile was saved only by prompt mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Other victims of the Isadora syndrome were even less fortunate. Five of the eleven victims died, but none as gruesomely as a young mother who wore a long scarf on a ski lift. Riding to the top of a mountain, she was yanked from her seat and hanged when her scarf caught on a descending chair...
...professor came into the classroom each day and bent his head over his notes to read them to us. Occassionally, he would wrinkle his forehead in an expression of great weight and importance to tally out of proportion with a what was being said. Also, occasionally he would lift his head to give a mechanical, passionless illustration of a point. Once or twice a week a student would make an observation the principal purpose of which was to show how extremely bright and receptive that student...
...likely to be friendly: a meeting of rabbis in Los Angeles, an aerospace plant in San Diego, the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, the Southern Governors' Conference in South Carolina. He earned grudging respect in those quarters but not enough to give his lagging drive much of a lift...
...former Teamsters Union President James R. Hoffa, paroled from a federal penitentiary last December after serving nearly five years for jury tampering and mail fraud, tried to go to North Viet Nam to seek the release of P.O.W.s. The not-entirely-altruistic reason: Hoffa hoped that the Government might lift his own parole restrictions if the P.O.W.s were released. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, who until last week had not been privy to the plan, firmly disapproved...
...vehicle and Ford came down to $59. Then, last week Grayson announced that no hike at all would be permitted. Any boost, he asserted, would push G.M. and Ford profit margins above permissible limits. Under Price Commission rules, a rise in price is not allowed if it would lift a company's profit margin-that is, its percentage of profit on each dollar of sales-above the figures for a pre-1971 base period. Moreover, Grayson asserted that the auto industry is so all-pervasive that a rise in auto prices would fan inflation throughout the economy and, more...