Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Poor Diana Trilling! Paperback rights for her new book brought only $125,000. The publishing industry must be suffering from hard times indeed. Invested in a money-market fund, that sum will only net her a yearly income of around $17,000, without her having to lift a finger. Poor woman! How will she make ends meet...
With its ungainly boxy shape the Checker taxicab has long been a distinctive part of the U.S. urban streetscape. Riders in New York, Aspen, Chicago and dozens of other cities stretched out their legs in limousine-like comfort. They could even offer a lift to friends on the tiny folding jump seats in the roomy passenger compartment...
...those strange twists of fortune, all the attention liberal artists place on recreational physical fitness can be counter productive It's not much fun to go out for a run and come back hopping on one foot, or to lift weights with such elan that you require that special abdominal surgery...
...were exasperating, almost tinged with gallows humor. Barely had the space shuttle Columbia settled into orbit last week than the ship's veteran commander, Marine Colonel Jack Lousma, 46, developed a severe case of motion sickness. The ship itself also suffered a recurrence of an old ailment: during lift-off it lost several dozen heat-shielding tiles. As Columbia whirled 150 miles above the earth, still other things began to go wrong-two television cameras failed, the $1.2 million toilet clogged, a latch on the cargo-bay doors temporarily jammed, mysterious static rang in the astronauts' ears...
...rearranging their work schedule. Their biggest challenge was operating a Canadian-built, remote-controlled arm that reached 50 ft. outside the shuttle. When the TV camera at the far end of the arm malfunctioned, the astronauts skillfully used binoculars to guide the giant limb, even getting it to lift an experimental package out of Columbia 's cavernous cargo bay. They also maneuvered the ship so different parts faced the sun, exposing them to temperatures as high as 200° F and as low as -200° F for up to 80 hrs. at a time. That served...