Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...body was first delivered to the morgue at about 6:45 p.m. When the plain "shipping casket," as some witnesses called the coffin that arrived then, was opened, Kennedy's corpse was in a rubber body bag. Paul K. O'Connor, a Navy technician who helped lift the body onto the autopsy table, Floyd Reibe, a Navy photographer's assistant, and Captain John Stover, commanding officer of the medical school at Bethesda, all confirmed this to Lifton...
Both Reagans get a substantial sartorial lift from their good looks and trim figures. Says Mariani: "He has about as close to a perfect figure as you can have...
Despite the difficulties, there was still time last week to imagine the lift-off that would for the first time use solid rockets to boost men into space. Said NASA Official James Kukowski: "It's going to be a visual spectacular, more spectacular than usual. When Columbia goes up, it won't be just flames and steam as it is for the Saturn stuff. There will be huge streamers of fire and dark, billowing clouds of smoke." And, quite likely, a good deal of hoping and praying. And not a little of that anticipatory mood that was expressed last week...
...major question in the minds of both agriculture officials and U.S. farmers last week was whether President-elect Ronald Reagan would soon lift the grain embargo, which he denounced in his campaign. Asked about the matter last week, Reagan said only that it would require "a great deal of study." Privately, Soviet officials think that Reagan may not end the sanctions. One indication: a declaration two weeks ago by John Block, Reagan's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, that "food is a weapon." But in an interview with TIME last week, Block softened his words, calling the embargo...
...McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both go out and stand on the curb," she advised, "and pretty soon somebody will come along in a car and recognize me and offer us a lift." (She was right...