Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gerald Ford in the election now say their impression of Carter has improved since then. As he begins making hard decisions on energy policy, welfare reform and taxes, this glorious glow about Carter's performance will doubtless pale. For the moment, however, he has brought a substantial lift to the morale of Americans. TIME's national mood indicator, based on a series of questions that measure people's confidence in the U.S., has risen to 47%, up seven percentage points since the election and a heady 2½ times the level of three years...
...completely routing Congress in its traditional heartland, the Hindi-speaking north. In a dramatic capitulation to the voters' verdict, Indira Gandhi drove to the home of Acting President B.D. Jatti at 4 a.m. one day last week after learning of her defeat, and asked him to lift the state of emergency that she had imposed 21 months earlier. A day later she resigned as Prime Minister...
...Bareli. Sealed off by sycophants, she did not learn the truth until 8 that night. She took the news calmly but became remote and withdrawn, stoically advising her ministers that if she had lost, she had lost. Before dawn the next morning she asked the Acting President to lift the state of emergency. Two hours later she summoned her ministers, many of whom had also been defeated, and told them she would resign...
...centuries in tribute to people and deeds. True, all those renditions of Hail to the Chief never made Richard Nixon a good or great man. But, damn it, whispers a military historian, Hail to the Chiefis an old rouser going back to the 19th century, which is used to lift spirits and tell people the President is there. The history of those honor guards that Carter is curtailing-Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin rated only a four-man color guard-goes back to the Bible; in the U.S. they have been lined up for 200 years according...
...dormitory he lives in, or convert part of the Stillman Infirmary into disabled students' quarters, where the students would pay regular room and board charges and share attendants and facilities. (Because Drafts has not yet found the on-campus attendant he needs, he relies on friends to lift him from his wheelchair...