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Word: lift (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Groome also had a tendency to lift the ball into the air like a tee-shot in golf. Opposing players did all they could to avoid stepping in front of Leelee when she wound...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Don't Call Her Evelyn... | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...envisioned, the mission to collect samples would require separate U.S. and Soviet launches. With their heavy-lift launcher Energia, which can boost payloads at least three times as great as those on the U.S. shuttle, the Soviets would provide an extra capability to ensure sufficient backup fuel supplies. They believe they can deploy a space shield or parachute to slow their spacecraft enough to enable it to enter orbit around Mars without the use of retrorockets that draw on precious fuel supplies. Soviet scientists concede that this "aerobreaking" technique is still experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Pros And Cons of a Flight to Mars | 6/6/1988 | See Source »

...have an inverse relationship," Jim says. "When I lift weights, Jon gets bigger...

Author: By Michael J. Lartigue, | Title: Life as the Corsican Brothers | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

...people. Last week the National Transportation Safety Board said "overwhelming evidence" points to pilot error as the cause of the accident. The agency said Captain John Maus and First Officer David Dodds skipped critical parts of their preflight routine and neglected to set the wing flaps to provide enough lift for takeoff. But the Air Line Pilots Association argued that the board gave insufficient weight to the fact that the alarm system on the McDonnell Douglas MD-80 failed to warn the crew that the flaps were not in position. Said Allison Maus, the captain's widow: "It's easy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIRLINES: Fatal Error In the Cockpit | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

Within a month after becoming General Secretary in 1985, Gorbachev set about to cauterize the wound. In the weeks ahead, Gorbachev and his comrades must be prepared for the spectacle of their abandoned Afghan quislings hanging for ) their lives from the undercarriages of Hind helicopters as they lift off from the Soviet embassy roof -- or hanging dead from the lampposts in Kabul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West No More Mr. Tough Guy? | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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