Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fatigue of both candidates and voters has yet to lift from the 1970 campaign, and already, inevitably there is talk of '72. The Democrats are looking over the ranks with an eye to burnishing their boys for the run on the White House; the telephone calls to set up clandestine campaign organizations are even now being placed. The strategists in the White House are searching for adjustments in the machinery that will keep them in power for another term. In slightly more than a year, the presidential primaries will open in New Hampshire...
...recognition would give China's diplomatic offensive a tremendous lift, particularly in Asia, and would probably lead to a stepup in Peking's attempt at subversion throughout the area...
This is not a complaint but a simple statement of fact. All that the Masons, the Boy Scouts and others of that persuasion attempt to do is to lift this struggle somewhat above the level of the jungle-to make man stand just a straighter...
Captain Gary Farneti will be able to pick the defense up from the Dartmouth rout. Starting quarterback Rod Foster, on the other hand, may not be able to give the same lift to the offense...
...Sailing is a lazy sport," he says. "You just sit around and drink beer. If you exert yourself it's for all of ten minutes. I have to run and lift weights to stay in shape for football...