Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city council is waiting for the developers' report on the environmental effects of ripping down the building before it decides whether to lift its historic status. From the look of things, the Garden Court may have received only one last stay of execution...
...American hostages' release. Ronald Wilson Reagan takes the oath of office to become the 40th President of the United States. One half hour later, as President Reagan's motorcade proceeds up crowded Pennsylvania Avenue, the 52 American hostages who have been held in Iran for 444 days' lift off from Tehran on a flight bound for Algiers...
Fire spread swiftly from the water line to the deck. Landing craft hurried to the Antelope to lift off the crew and transfer them to other ships. More explosions sent sparks and debris high into the air as the frigate burned through the night. At dawn, the hulk was still glowing red, one side ripped open. Finally, hours later, the Antelope sank...
...that has not counted itself a friend of both [Britain and Argentina]?" Overriding a plea by Haig, the O.A.S. the next day approved, by a vote of 17 to 0, an Argentine-sponsored resolution condemning Britain's "unjustified and disproportionate armed attacks" and asking the U.S. to lift the economic and military sanctions that it had imposed against Buenos Aires last month. The U.S. abstained, along with Cuba, Colombia and Trinidad-Tobago...
...that common cold of the earthling's psyche, a mid-life crisis. Since his promotion to flag rank, he has been deskbound and restless. For his latest birthday "Bones" McCoy has presented him with a pair of granny glasses for his failing eyes, a bottle of booze to lift his sagging spirit. Meanwhile, there is unfinished business that ought to be attended to: a grown son whose existence Kirk has never properly acknowledged (all those long business trips didn't help) and who is understandably resentful about his inability to get Dad's attention...