Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tehran, Tel Aviv. They seem as familiar to him as stations on a commuter run in Connecticut. Then, listening to him self, he stops and smiles apologetically. "And to think that when I was growing up in Henning, Tennessee, it used to be a big deal to get a lift on a feed truck to Memphis!" The phenomenal success of Roots has not so much changed Haley's life as it has obliterated it, giving him a new and often uncomfortable persona as if he were seeing himself in a strange, distorting mirror. "It's like a kaleidoscope...
David Richard, an aviation planning specialist with the Federal Aviation Administration, said the jets must fly into the wind to get the "lift" they need for take...
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During his speech to the Mexican congress, which Carter delivered in Spanish, the president said Mexico's new found oil and natural gas riches will help lift the Mexican standard of living closer to that of the United States, which in turn will help slow immigration north...
...pilot does not get the required lift he'll have to abort the take-off and if he's short on pavement he could run into some real problems," Richard said...