Word: lift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign-service officer in 1973, driven himself through 48 sleepless hours helping run the evacuation from the embassy. As his helicopter headed for the U.S. fleet, he says, "I was numb with exhaustion. Physically, I was beyond sensation. But I felt the tremendous weight of all that pressure lift off me. I realized my war, our war, was finally over...
This Sunday the Ford Hall Forum will host Leonard Peikoff, Objectivism's leading philosopher and Rand's intellectual heir. In his talk, Peikoff will address the underlying causes of crime. Some of our professors should perhaps lift their "veil of ignorance" and venture to the Ford Hall Forum...
...letter to President Clinton urges him to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia-Herzegovina immediately while the letter to Boutros Ghali asks the Secretary General to support more funding for an investigation of alleged war crimes committed in Bosnia...
...down, up and down. It comes at a time when you hit the wall," said Geesaman, who finished his second Boston Marathon in a time of 3 hours and 50 minutes. "It is really traumatic...suddenly you just have nothing, you start getting chills, you can't lift your legs...
...Tomcat jumped like a bucking bronco. One second. Two seconds. That's all the time Tuba and Rosie have to decide if the jet has enough power to lift off. If not, they would have to eject in a half- second, plunge into the ocean and hope the Eisenhower wouldn't run over them...