Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question whether human beings really want seasons at all. Civilization's ambition for centuries has been to mitigate them, even to abolish them. The seasons in many developed latitudes are rough and unpredictable. Man wanted to subdue them, domesticate them. The logic of Progress has been to lift humanity out of the yearly cycles and into a higher trajectory. Progress was designed to be an ascendant journey, linear and always brightening, not a mere pointless circular plod around the calendar...
...ANYTHING was clear after last Monday's Boston maydeal candidates forum, it was that to one has yet emerged to challenge Mayor Kevin H. WAhite. And with less than five months lift before the September open primary. White--who has not declared his candidacy despite dropping all sorts of hints--appears to be in the driver's seat...
...doubled to left, and Farrell, who went four-for-seven on the day, came through with the RBIs once again. The senior first baseman belted a double to center that scored both runners. Farrell moved to third when Martelli flew out, then scored on a Baldocchi-passed ball to lift the batmen to a 3-0 advantage. Harvard, 5-3 at Annapolis, Md. Harvard 200 030 0--5 6 1 Navy...
BUFFALO--Mike Ramsey whipped a long wrist shot past Boston gaalie Pete Peeters with 2:58 left in the game to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 4-3 victory over the Bruins last night...
...Landmark itself can make a reader feel beaned, but on a good day, amid its political ravings, and there are plenty of those, all conservative, it can lift the spirits, make you pause to hear the birds. Take, for example, "My Dog Squirt Is Home," the tale of a beagle hound that had been missing five months, only to turn up again...