Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joyous reception in the Middle East and the assault on the prosecutorial mood of Watergate by Henry Kissinger in Salzburg undoubtedly gave President Nixon a hefty public relations lift last week in his struggle for survival. But at home, the impeachment process pushed on, producing revelations that in a less sensation-surfeited time would probably have stolen the nation's attention from the traveling presidential party. The new evidence solidly supported the already strong case that Nixon had engaged in a conspiracy to conceal his active role in the Watergate coverup...
...White collection includes a superb variety of masks, from cumbrous affairs that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion of lips like a bird's beak, too small to fit a human head. Thompson has included films showing how these personifications of spirit and moral forces are used in communal dances: Gaa Wree-Wre, for instance, the Dan personification of "ideal justice," with its white-rimmed eyes, worn in a dance characterized by ponderous walking and sitting...
...just beginning to lift from the ocean when we went to Point Lobos. In the sun, it looked like baskets of cotton tumbling over; a light golden haze, mixed with the green and brown of Marin heights across the channel. Ray and I climbed down on the deep-scarred rocks and went into a small cave hidden between a deep cut in the rocks. We could hear the small waves smack crisply outside, but inside the small grotto our voices were dull and hollow. Ray began talking about school...
...tips. Spurred by a $65,000 Navy contract, the firm is now studying the prospect of building full-size Aerocranes with spheres as large as 180 ft. across and wings of 126 ft. Powered by four 4,000-h.p. turboprop wing engines, the giant ship should be able to lift weights up to 90 tons-more than twice as much as any existing helicopter. Spinning slowly (8.6 r.p.m.), it will cruise cross-country at a speed of 47 m.p.h. with its crew sitting in a nonrotating cab suspended beneath the sphere...
...stride in the discount merchandise field. Today it is the third largest and fastest-growing ma jor retail operation in the nation. Sales in 1973 amounted to $4.63 billion and in creased 24% hi the first quarter of 1974. Kresge Chairman and Chief Executive Robert E. Dewar wants to lift sales to $12 billion by 1980 and leave current front runners J.C. Penney (No. 2) and Sears, Roebuck (No. 1) far behind...