Word: lift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ditches teach me nothing else, they've taught me how incredibly fortunate we are and how much we owe it to the society which supports us to lift up our eyes and reach for the stars...
...MUCH FOR THE free flow of information. Two VES students who were particularly upset about the firings and the rumors surrounding them will meet with the executive committee next week; perhaps then the committee will lift the veil of ignorance--as John Rawls would call it--and begin to tell people what they have on their minds...
There may have been times over these past 200 years when a President has had dark thoughts-and perhaps questionable conversations-about how to counter his opponents and to lift himself out of crises. But there is a body of bipartisan opinion among the men around former Chief Executives that the presidency has never before experienced such a squalid episode...
There was a discernible lift in morale at the Department of Housing and Urban Development because Secretary James Lynn had been included in Ford's positive musings. At Health, Education and Welfare, the opposite was true. There had been no mention by Ford of Secretary Caspar Weinberger...
...contract will lift the present average wage of about $5.80 an hour, an average of 5% a year, with the biggest boosts coming in the first year. The lowest-paid workers will get an 18.4% increase initially. In addition, each of the 352,000 workers covered will get a $150 cash bonus. The increases go into effect May 1-the day after wage-price controls are expected to die-though the current contract extends to Aug. 1. A liberalized and potentially expensive escalator clause will add a penny an hour to wages for each rise of three-tenths...