Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under similar circumstances. Thus Administration officials were able to claim that Reagan's invitation to Gromyko was nothing more than a traditional gesture, though they neglected to point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since 1978. Reagan expressed cautious optimism that a session with Gromyko might lift some of the "suspicion and hostility" that have lately poisoned U.S.-Soviet relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends...
Reagan was back at the White House by nightfall Thursday. His campaign schedule is no grind. On the road only two or three days a week, he tries to avoid addressing complicated issues or difficult audiences. His strategists prefer a succession of snapshots: Reagan amid a lift-off of 5,000 balloons in Waterbury last week, Reagan surrounded by smiling workers during a planned visit to an Akron steel plant this week. The idea is simple: just keep the jaunty President walking on the sunny side of the street...
...their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down to our sides. We are like prisoners. It is hard for us to lift our souls to God." - By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow
...ritual was not a photo opportunity staged for the occasion. It was required, said Maori leaders, to lift the tapu, or religious restrictions, from the exhibit's 174 pieces, which the New Zealanders believe are imbued with the living spirits of their ancestors. After the Metropolitan show closes Jan. 6, Maori leaders will travel abroad once more to conduct tapu-lifting rites when the exhibit opens at the St. Louis Art Museum in February and the M.H, de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in July...
...Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy's temple and then to lift off the top of his skull...