Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...final distinctive features of the launch pad are three massive flame ducts, each 50 ft. high and 70 ft. wide, that will vent the tremendous energy released during lift-offs. Seven seconds before takeoff, an underground pipe 10 ft. in diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents...
...shut the door, Warren! (fatigued. I said). up the knocker, say I'm sick. I'm dead. I've got a People magazine so fat With reminiscent slush and self-congrat That I could barely lift it off the stoop. (Not from my door--I stole it off the some dupe) It seems this month the rag is ten years old; Too bad. I hoped that they were soon to fold. Their editer says their style is really new; They feature People, not people like...
When skiing Juan Carios "waits in the lift line with everyone else." Marichal added...
...success of the Grenada invasion was such a lift to the American spirit after so many humiliations in foreign affairs that the press, in harping on being excluded, seemed like crybabies. A Louis Harris survey some weeks later found that a 65%-to-32% majority of Americans thought the Administration was wrong in not taking reporters along, but the press will not soon forget the public hostility it felt at the time. In the euphoria of success, the Administration got in some cheap shots. Unlike World War II, Secretary of State George Shultz remarked, nowadays "it seems as though reporters...
...KIND of day travelers dread and ticket agents loathe Ram and fog closed airports and delayed traffic across the Northeast for most of the afternoon, but as evening came the ceiling started to lift. At Kennedy Airport's international wing the few ticket agents still at their terminals were looking forward to going home after the long day of fending off customers who had connections or lost their luggage. A half hour before the nine O'clock flight was to leave for London an agitated elderly woman hurried up to the counter. "I'm sorry, this station's, station...