Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abroad is that nothing very much is happening in Greece, and many Greeks say it too. But allow me to say that there is one little bit of evidence that is objective about the mood of the Greek people. And that is that they have not been able to lift martial law-it's almost fouryears, and they have not been able to apply even their own fake fascist constitution, their so-called democratic constitution. They haven't been able to use it; not one article of that constitution really is functioning today. The country is still under direct, arbitrary...
...stirring and epochmaking. Great leaders have something in them which inspires a whole people and makes them do great deeds." Nehru's daughter has inspired India's people to give her an extraordinary mandate. Now she faces the far more difficult task of charting a program to lift an ancient burden of poverty from her land, and of inspiring her people to follow that program...
...Sanh, the distinctive pump and whir of hundreds of helicopter rotor blades began at 7 a.m., even before the morning fog started to lift. Drowsy pilots walked out to their UH-1 Hueys and malevolent-looking OH-6 Cobra gunships, checked out the oil levels, the instruments and the control linkages, and then strolled back to their tactical operations centers. The call to combat came as it has almost every day since the Laotian operation began, well before midmorning. At the heavily sandbagged T.O.C. of the 4th Battalion, 77th Field Artillery, 101st Airborne Division, blond, mustachioed Warrant Officer Fred Hayden...
Badly mauled airborne units were reported wandering around the hills north of Highway 9 waiting for U.S. helicopters to lift them...
...matter of Zappa getting famous, then giving his buddy a lift. Their first albums came out simuhaneously in late '66. If the Mothers became popular and Beefheart didn't it wasn't because Freak Out! is better music. Those who've listened to Safe As Milk know that Captain Beefheart has the best, most ignored record ever made (maybe). Alex St. Claire's guitar on his first two albums is superlative, as is Captain Beefheart's amazing voice and harp. The bumper sticker that comes with Safe As Milk is alone worth the price of that album...