Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...want to give one word of warning, however. Never complain to anyone while sitting on a ski lift. A year ago while in As pen, I happened to be riding a lift with an automobile executive...
WITH a cool, shrewd assurance that astounded and dismayed longtime professionals in their party, the neophyte legioris of George McGovern polished off a political miracle in the cramped but controlled atmosphere of Miami Beach's convention hall. The outsiders had barged through the gates of reform to lift the "prairie populist" from national obscurity to the Democratic Party's nomination for President in 18 amazing months. Exuberant only in the early morning hours of their champion's victorious entrance into the hall, they promptly and euphorically vowed to perform a second miracle: the defeat of Richard Nixon...
...worst air crash in British history. The "black box" flight recorder, retrieved after the crash, revealed that the forward "droop" flaps that produce added lift on takeoff had been retracted much too early, which may have caused the plane to go into an irreversible stall...
...them, thus relieving states and cities of what has become a crushing fiscal burden. But H.R. 1 would pay only $2,400 a year to a family of four, leaving it well below the officially designated urban poverty line of $3,968; McGovern's $4,000 payments would lift the city family barely above the line...
...green. Generally, a golfer must play his ball where it lies or take a penalty of added strokes if he chooses to move it. Among weekend golfers, the temptation is often strong to improve a lie surreptitiously, especially on the greens, where a player is permitted to lift the ball and wipe it off. But in the competitive sphere of professional golf, where scrutiny is high and tolerance understandably low, such cheating is rare. Which is why the U.S. golfing world last week was closely following the case of pretty Jane Blalock...