Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroads, although making more money than they can lift, suddenly began to worry. They predicted traffic declines ranging from 15 to 25% after V-E day cutbacks in military orders. Alarmed at this prospect, and at the inroads that higher costs of materials and wages have made in this year's net (estimated at $650 million v. $874 million in 1943); the carriers asked the ICC to increase rates by an average of 4-7%-One argument: at war's end the railroads expect to spend $1.7 billion for new equipment, but owing to higher prices will...
...artists in occupied Paris. What had become of the famed Paris School of modern painting branded "decadent" by the Nazis? Was there a new, underground art movement? Were there many new paintings by such modern masters as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse? Last week the curtain was beginning to lift. French-made color reproductions of new work by Matisse, Picasso, Bonard and some younger men had been flown across the Atlantic. The portfolios (called Editions du Chene) established two points: 1) the older artists had done considerable work, had not changed markedly in style; 2) the younger painters had followed...
...Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
...field and evacuation hospitals go first to "pre-ops" or "shock tents." There they lie pale and uncomplaining in the eerie, khaki shadows of a single string of overhead lights while they absorb whole blood or plasma. Blood is a miraculous strength-giver. In 20 minutes drooping eyelids lift, eyes become clear and focused. Normal color returns, and the men chat with the nurses and ask for a cigaret. Then they go on operating tables, where wounds too horrible to describe get enough patchwork to allow them to go safely to England...
...found from careful observation that helpless drunks always walk east, fall down when they try to walk west. A drunk, Volf noted further, will resist entering a car or patrol wagon when it faces west but climb aboard willingly if it faces east. And he is much easier to lift to his feet if he faces east. Another useful tip: some drunks only fight facing eastward. Volf advice: "The fight may be avoided if the opponent will cause the intoxicant to face westward. This impels the intoxicant to fall backward...