Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter read to the Undergraduate Council last night, Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 informed the body that he would not lift a ban on kegs in freshman dorms, as the council had asked him to do only three weeks...
Back then Gore fought Bush's efforts to lift the 4.5% interest lid on Government bonds. Bush hammered Gore's enthusiasm for the Trade Expansion Act in John Kennedy's Administration. But the two joined in the struggles for civil rights legislation. "There was never an impolite exchange between us," recalls Gore. "We could debate for two hours and then go down to the Senate Dining Room and have coffee together...
...Hayes came to life just when the Crimson needed a lift, hitting three baskets to help extend Harvard's lead to 55-48, and the Bulldogs were too tired to make another comeback...
...Bush has an invisible "evil twin" Skippy, Dole staffers joke that their candidate has an invisible "happy" twin. Even after Dole knew he had won Iowa, he was slow to celebrate. When he finally accepted his victory, breaking into a genuine smile, Iowa voters must have got a special lift, having made this sad man happy for a moment. Before the week was out, the happy twin had again disappeared...
...visited his sister's husband and her three young children. He gave them his Olympic participant's medal. At home the postman keeps bringing carts of mail full of sympathy and admiration. Jansen may have fallen on the ice, but the world would reach out if it could to lift...