Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Particular quarterbacks move teams beyond the scrimmage line, as the best coaches know. San Francisco's Bill Walsh could make a serviceable quarterback out of an usher, but no one can be taught to lift a team the way Joe Montana raised the 49ers 55 days after back surgery. "Armies work hard for Lancelot," Guard Randy Cross says, "harder for King Arthur." At 38, oft- deposed Raider Jim Plunkett keeps coming back to reign in Los Angeles...
...good, nice lift," Israel said of the goal-line stand, "At that point, they knew they would lose...
...factor affecting family incomes has been the entry of more and more women into the work force. Following the rampant inflation of the 1970s, having two incomes was the only way many households could maintain their standard of living. For some families, however, two salaries have been enough to lift them out of the middle class. Neither Biologist Cam Patterson nor his wife Dorothy, a library assistant, both 37, has a particularly high- paying job. But their combined salary of $58,000 is enough for them to afford the $300,000 house they are building in Normal Heights, Calif. Even...
...every star has the fame he deserves. A lifetime of fabulation has honed his image; it matters little whether the public mask matches the private face, so long as it fits and pleases. The mask on Wladziu Valentino Liberace fits like a face-lift; it has evoked smiles and giggles for two generations. And it surely keeps the man busy. His current engagement at the Music Hall will bring Vegas glamour to more than 100,000 of the faithful, though ticket sales are lagging behind his two previous record-breaking Radio City gigs. In addition, Lee has a new book...
...appeal could have been penned by the Warsaw government. It stated that the "most urgent task facing Poles today" is to improve the economy. Then it called upon President Reagan to lift the economic sanctions against Poland that have been in place since 1981, when the U.S. slapped on the measures to protest suppression of the Solidarity trade-union movement. What made last week's appeal unusual was its ten signatories. The list of prominent Poles included three Solidarity advisers and Lech Walesa, a founder and former leader of the now outlawed movement...