Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only source of suspense in the Schirra episode is a worry over the winds on the day of lift-off. Surely, if three men are going to sit on a skyscraper-size tube of rocket fuel and then be sent into space for 11 days, there must be more exciting matters to dwell on. In general, the mini-series fails to give the viewer a good sense of the purposes and risks of the missions. That's not surprising, since scientific information is so hard to convey in a drama. The result, though, is that we don't appreciate...
...march of progress that we are witnessing, where chain stores will provide a great economic miracle to lift Central Square out of poverty. This is the destruction of a community of people who care about the stores they frequent. These are places that have served as communal gathering points and provided cheap food for the elderly...
...important that we lift those white, opaque veils of ignorance that have been placed between men and women, between different people of color," said Suzan Shown Harjo, president of the Morning Star Institute, an American Indian advocacy group...
...Uday?s newspapers, Babil, today quoted President Clinton in a front-page lead as saying it was time to lift sanctions against Iraq. On page two, the newspaper admitted the report was "only an April Fools' joke. It is the beginning of spring. Many happy returns." Uday was once sentenced to death by his own father for clubbing to death one of the family?s retainers, and is alleged to have been involved in the killing of his own brother-in-law. In other words, when he makes a joke, it?s a good idea to laugh...
...Sure, the Bowl could use a face lift," Beckett said, "but we're not gonna tear it down...