Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports precisely because it doesn't deal with the monumental: "It isn't nuclear physics. When I was in California, floods and mud slides were killing people. On the football field, catastrophe is a fumble." On the other hand, Callahan thinks, sporting events do give fans a lift. "I try not to get involved emotionally," he says, "but the feelings can sneak up on you. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about horse racing, but when I watched Secretariat come down the stretch at Belmont Park in 1973 to become the first Triple Crown winner in 25 years...
...high speeds, an aircraft operates most efficiently if its wings intercept the air at an angle. Trouble occurs when the plane is flying at slower, subsonic speeds: swept-back wings reduce lift and increase fuel consumption. One way designers have tried to overcome this problem is by creating "variable geometry" aircraft that can swing back their wings at higher speeds and bring them forward for reduced speeds, especially during takeoffs and landings, when the plane needs maximum lift...
Veterans of Cold War I who are rushing to re-enlist for Cold War II should get a lift from this jaunty medley of 1950s history and spy fiction. Through diplomatic freeze and thaw, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, has always kept his ideological thermostat set at a conservative 32° F. In his fourth novel-entertainment, he again slips into the adventurous alter id, Blackford Oakes, the dashing Yalie spook who first appeared in Saving the Queen...
...They put a shirt over my head, and they hit me with something hard. I felt the men coming over to lift off the shirt. But I was still conscious. I heard the boatmaster order another man to cut my throat. (Here Loc interjects that he was powerless to help. Pham offers no consolation...
...financial supermarkets such as Merrill Lynch and Sears, Roebuck & Co., which offer every service from money-market accounts to insurance. Savings and loan lobbyists in Washington, for example, have been waging a rear-guard action to stop the deregulation of interest rates. In October they blocked a plan to lift the level that they pay on passbook accounts from 5.5% to 6%. The thrifts argued that such a move would cost them $500 million annually and make their plight even worse...