Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting on stage. A rugby accident in high school left him paralyzed from the neck down and dependent on a wheelchair to get around. Without a special elevator, Wallace needed his friends to hoist him onto the stage. At his request, the University began plans to install a lift, but Wallace was "fed up" waiting for it and quit the group before it was built...
...That was a big goal," Scalise said. "He sees the open net, he throws it and it goes in. That really gave us a big lift...
...nationwide radio and television address, delivered partly in folksy native Creole, Council President Lieut. General Henri Namphy acknowledged that there was widespread discontent. Said he: "If you think it is grave now, I tell you it could be a lot graver if people don't return to work and lift the country out of the impasse it is in." Three days later Justice Minister Francois Latortue announced that an unnamed Swiss bank had agreed to freeze a $367 million account belonging to the Duvaliers. The Haitian government hopes to recover the money, which is part of the fortune that Baby...
...Linda Runyon tipped in against Cornell with only one second left in double overtime to lift the Crimson to a miraculous 1-0 victory--only its second win in seven games...
...traditional response is student apathy. These are the quietist '80s: and these specimens, ladies and gentlemen, are today's college students, so obsessed with their career prospects that they won't lift a finger for the ideals they probably no longer even cherish...