Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prosecutor Franzbruno Eulencamp announced that his office planned to indict Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff on charges of bribery and corruption. Also accused were former Economics Minister Hans Friderichs, now chairman of West Germany's second-ranking Dresdner Bank, and three other officials. Eulencamp asked the Bundestag to lift the immunity Lambsdorff enjoys as a member of parliament. Despite strong expressions of support for Lambsdorff from Kohl and his Cabinet, the Bundestag did just that, making a formal presentation of the charges possible...
Many, of course, are familiar: Paul Henreid lighting Bette Davis' cigarette in Now, Voyager, a hungry Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert waiting for a lift in It Happened One Night, a mad Gloria Swanson posing for the cameras in her final scene of Sunset Boulevard. Others come as welcome surprises. There is a very young (26) Gary Cooper making an early film appearance in Wings (1927), and in a still from The Picture of Dorian Gray, we finally see what Dorian's naughty escapades did to that portrait in his attic. Sennett has the perhaps obligatory shot...
...left-leaning democracies and are wasting valuable resources funding an enormous fighting machine to oppose the U.S. backed counter-revolutionaries operating from Honduras. So you make some significant conciliatory gestures to your critics. For example, you ask more than 2000 Cuban civilians and military advisors to return home, you lift censorship controls on the press; you engage in dialogue with the opposition parties; you plan elections for 1985: and you start to actively seek a peaceful solution to the Miskito Indian problem...
...this time she couldn't lift the puck past the off-balance Bruin netminder, Mara Spaulder, and Saturday's game at Bright Center went into sudden-death overtime...
...that Harvard overlooked the Lions. If anything, the aquamen had overlooked Navy the day before in preparation for Columbia. Navy's shave--which allows a team to take off the excess hair that accounts for unwelcome excess surface area and along the way pick up a huge psychological lift--caught the Crimson offguard...