Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stressed by one of the Administration's most ardent hardliners, Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said he: "Arms control negotiations are not bargains among peasants haggling over the price of potatoes. The two leading nuclear powers should do whatever is possible to help lift the cloud of war from the horizon.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow and Laurence L. Barrett/Washington
...Stoned Age.) Seeking vengeance, Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) becomes, incidentally, the world's first deprogrammer. This among other muscle-bound links to contemporary life is definitely intentional. What is not is the flatness of Schwarzenegger's performance, the dullness of his odyssey. Instead of the giddy lift one sometimes obtains from improbably heroic adventures, one gets a grim endorsement of the uses of primitive mysticism and brutality. Conan is a sort of psychopathic Star Wars, stupid and stupefying. -By Richard Schickel
...Whenever we make a [crane] lift over the street, we stop both traffic and pedestrians; it happens every day." Farrell said...
...suspected, though not confirmed, that the Vulcan bombers that struck Port Stanley airfield may have used the new JP233 airfield attack bomb. The result of a collaboration between British and U.S. firms, the JP233 craters enemy runways by penetrating the concrete before exploding, causing the surface to lift and fracture over a wide area. The bomb also seeds the territory with delayed-action antipersonnel explosives...
...machine that says in effect: This is the size of man insofar as that size may be measured by this machine. It is not the whole size of man, but it is a definable percentage. Other machines show you how fast you can move and how much you can lift. This one shows you how well you can think, in certain areas. It will do as much as you would have it do, so it will demonstrate the extent of your capabilities. But since it can only go as far as you wish it to go, it will also demonstrate...