Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Friends would ask, "Did you hear the Red Sox are moving to Manila? They're going to be called the Manila Folders," and you'd laugh, but they're missing the point, as are all who have never felt their hearts lift as they catch that first glimpse of green...
Knowlton said that Reagan has "given tax reform a lift" with his Wednesday State of the Union address advocating a change in the tax system...
...between his Cabinet officials and a group of blacks, most of them conservative, who called themselves the Council for a Black Economic Agenda. They told Reagan what he wanted to hear: impoverished blacks, and whites as well, should rely less on Government and more on their own efforts to lift themselves out of their economic plight...
Unrelieved worry about self-preservation is one of life's more depressing preoccupations. DeLillo illustrates this sad fact and attempts to lift the dread with satire and comic invention. An expert explains the poison cloud that threatens Iron City: "This is Nyodene D. A whole new generation of toxic waste. What we call state of the art." There are lampoons (if that is possible) of occult tabloids: "From beyond the grave, dead living legend John Wayne will communicate telepathically with President Reagan to help frame U.S. foreign policy. Mellowed by death, the strapping actor will advocate a hopeful policy...
Some 2.5 billion people, more than half the earth's population, watched the Los Angeles Games. Not since Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon has America had such an opportunity to lift its best face to the world. Ueberroth arranged the showing. He took over the stage of the global village, the earth intricately interconnected, and he spectacularly presented the U.S. upon it. If such success represented a political manipulation of the Games, blame not American leaders but the irrepressible high spirits of Ueberroth's free enterprise...