Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Together they spend the afternoon sightseeing, the evening strolling in a tamed glade overlooking the Hudson River. A milkman (James Gleason) gives them a lift that turns into a nightlong ride through the city; his wife (Lucile Gleason) gives them breakfast and some easygoing advice about marrying in a hurry. Almost against their will, they come to suspect, that they are in love. The suspicion becomes a desperate certainty when, still without knowing each other's last names, they get separated in a subway crush...
...Lift not thy spear against the Muse's bower...
...resurrection of the plan was only a part of the great step WPB took toward reconverting U.S. industry. Without wait ing for a formal announcement, WPB quietly put into effect its own plans for V-E day. As fast as it could, WPB began to lift the system of controls from indus try and turn loose manpower and materi als for big-scale civilian manufacture...
...gold; somebody had lost the key to the chamber. The Americans obligingly blew out the wall. And there was the gold, each 25-lb. bar wrapped in a sack, each sack tagged: "Reichsbank." There were sacks of gold coin, some of them too heavy for a man to lift. There seemed to be even more gold stacked in the dim-lit, salt-crusted chamber than Vieck had said...
When French Revolutionists seized Captain Shaw's ship, the stubborn New Englander braved Robespierre and wicked Paris to get it back. Humor and deft characterization lift this book a notch above the standard adventure romance. Co-author Smith is Mrs. John Dos Passos...