Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freely elected Assembly and Legislative Council, the British Dominions Office appointed three English civil servants and three Newfoundlanders to form, with the governor, a Commission of Government. The Commission turned out to be a dictatorship, however benevolent, and it never won public approval. Moreover, it could not lift the island out of the economic doldrums...
Three years after Roy Hollis arrived in Rutledge, 1,500 citizens of the town and county, impressed by his industry and honesty, had signed a petition asking the state pardon board to lift his parole. Trapped by his neighbors' good will, the fugitive confessed. The petition was destroyed. In the years that followed, all Rutledge had protected him with silence...
...speeding-up of reconversion, which will also allow Government controls to be cut as production increases. Britain needs this not only to restore her own war-battered land but to regain her overseas markets. To get even moderate prosperity, she must lift her exports 75% above 1938. On V-J day they stood at only...
Ever since Milo of Crotona, in the 6th Century B.C., lugged a four-year-old cow to a sacrificial altar, farm boys have been trying to duplicate his legendary feat. Rural jokesters long ago figured out how a man might lift better than his weight in beef. If a growing boy lifts a small calf, they say, and keeps lifting it day after day, why shouldn't the grown man eventually be able to lift the full grown cow? For the Borden Co.'s farm-flavored radio show, County Fair, the ancient gag looked good as new. Last...
Buck, 17, was in ABC's New York studio Oct. 9 when Phoebe was offered to a farm boy willing to try the stunt. The calf weighed only 75 Ibs. then, an easy lift for 149-lb. Buck, a football hero at Somerville, N.J. high school. For each day he gets her off the ground, County Fair pays...