Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boston mayoral candidate Mel King made a surprise visit to the dedication ceremonies and received a standing ovation. King joined school children and the assembly in singing such songs as "We Shall Overcome" and "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing...
Beginning next spring, the National Park Service will lift visitors up through the atrium in a glass-walled elevator so they can enjoy panoramic views from the top of the tower, the second highest pinnacle in the area after the Washington Monument. Tourists have other amenities to sample in the Pavilion. After two years of negotiations, the Government granted a 55-year lease to the Evans Development Co., which put up an additional $10 million to make space suitable for shops...
Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...country, hoping to arouse popular support with a televised speech that claimed he was being framed by the Justice Department and, by implication, Nixon himself. The Republican women in his Los Angeles audience cheered him to the rafters, but no nationwide ground swell of public opinion developed to lift him high. "Everything was downhill after L.A.," says Marsh Thomson, Agnew's press aide. "The point was driven home to him that he was 'dead.' The limb had been sawed...
...Jesus Christ now strides barefoot. He arrives onstage most phallically, rising like a glittering crocus out of a chalice that somewhat resembles those silver bowls in which hotels serve grapefruit. He departs crucified on a Daliesque golden triangle that is slowly projected toward the audience by a hidden cherrypicker lift. In Jesus' company come a sweetly sensuous, cheek-kissing Mary Magdalene, a quintet of Jewish high priests who call for a "final solution" to their Jesus problem, and King Herod-a queen in full drag. There is also the traitor Judas, played by a black whose considerable talent...