Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast, busy emptiness of a prairie farm...
...Crimson played the visitors close throughout the first half, handling the full-court press admirably to stay within striking distance of the Lady Friars. With co-captain Liz Gettelman's hot hand from the outside (10 points on 4-6 shooting in the first half) providing the lift, Harvard went into the intermission holding a 48-45 advantage...
...Saints knocked off Union and RPI over the weekend to keep pace with the leaders. St. Lawrence had an easy time of it Friday, ripping Union 6-3 behind two goals from winger Mark McGrath, but it took a power play goal with 16 seconds left to lift the Saints over gritty RPI. There will be no rest for St. Lawrence this weekend, as they entertain conference foes Harvard and Brown in Canton...
...hard even with a team of our size, which is 17 people, because there is only one apparatus from each type of lift," said Jessica Gelman, a junior point guard on the women's basketball team. "This is pretty pathetic for a Division I program...
FIDEL CASTRO COULD TAKE MANHATTAN if you let him [CUBA, Nov. 6]. He could persuade the U.S. to lift its trade embargo if he set Cuba free. How nice of him to shed his fatigues and don dapper new clothes. But he is still a devil--even if in a suit. The people he manages to impress never had to live in a communist country, never had to go hungry or be separated from their family. I am sick of people glorifying a man who is a criminal and who violates human rights. He tries to impress businessmen who want...