Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...come to symbolize for him a means of expiation. The Model T was the farmer's car, durable, bereft of frills, and cheap." And the farmer for whom it was built was in reality the elder Ford, whose heavy labors his son had observed from childhood. "To lift farm drudgery off flesh and blood and lay it on steel and motors has been my most constant ambition," Henry once said...
...partly because the policemen's ten-hour shifts overlap during the high-crime hours of 11 p.m. to 2 a.m. Patrolmen Bob Dawson and Ivan Neal put their additional day off to good use: both are studying for college degrees. Even a temporary four-day week seems to lift morale. Knox Reeves Advertising of Minneapolis closed Fridays throughout last July because President Kenneth Oelschlager wanted to test whether more leisure would generate more ideas in a business that depends on brainpower. The staff whizzed through a heavier-than-usual work load, and "do it the July...
...free them from what they called "the tyranny of the terrain." There are now 3,500 helicopters, worth nearly $1 billion, in Viet Nam. With the arrival of the high-speed, heavily armed Cobra in 1967, the ships became flying combat-assault platforms for entire brigades in mass lift operations. More than any other weapon, they enabled the U.S. to fight the guerrillas' kind...
Cradled in the crook of his arm or clutched tightly in his palm, the camera is his constant companion. At any instant, any place, Henri Cartier-Bresson may suddenly lift his battered Leica to eye level, click the shutter and return instantly to whatever he was doing before what he calls "the decisive moment." Capturing such moments-usually joy, sadness, love, a memory reflected in a face or posture-has been Cartier-Bresson's life and profession for more than three decades. He has become the master of the documentary photograph...
...roads, schools, hospitals, factories and housing rises faster than the productivity of the men who build them-as it has done-that bill is passed on to consumers and taxpayers through inflation. Construction costs have been climbing at a rate almost double that of all U.S. prices, helping to lift the cost of new homes beyond the reach of millions of middle-income families. In Manhattan, says Architect Richard Roth Jr., "you cannot rent an apartment at a price high enough to justify building...