Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, the President's new/old phrase applies not only to crime, but also to other fevers disturbing the public psyche. Regardless of his performance in other areas, it is at least encouraging that he should try to reduce passions, lift the nation's spirit and seek answers to very real problems by beginning at the beginning, with the Constitution itself...
...woman next to them produced her diamond bracelet and rings. The offer was accepted, and when the gates were opened, the three also sprinted in. Meanwhile, a Vietnamese police officer, who was equally unauthorized, showed up at the embassy and had his own driver help lift his wife, nine children and then himself over the wall...
...quite. Washington is not yet prepared to lift the embargo, although pressures have been mounting within both the State Department and Congress for normalizing American-Cuban relations. Last week Senator George McGovern, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, flew to Cuba for a four-day visit. The former Democratic presidential nominee was the third Senator to make a factfinding visit to Cuba in the past eight months.* He went, as he put it, "to see for myself what the Cubans have accomplished in their system. I'm going to try to learn. I want to see what...
That the "baby lift" is another facet of our emotionalism with respect to South Viet Nam is undeniable. But that it is being used by the Administration to manipulate emotions in favor of the President and against the Congress is highly questionable...
...request for aid to South Viet Nam. But the real responsibility is that of the American people themselves. Congress is only carrying out the mandate of its constituents, and that mandate for years has been to get out of South Viet Nam and stay out. Admirable as the baby lift may be, where is our concern for South Vietnamese babies left behind...