Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned up in the city of Itabaiana. Now he had disciples. They built a temple. Coming into a town, they would hang an image of Christ on a tree, kneel in prayer, lift the image aloft and triumphantly enter the town to the chorus of litanies. Antonio Conselheiro's sermons were barbarous and terrifying, clownish but dreadful, compounded of visions, prophecies, dogmatic counsels, delivered in a dull monotone, with downcast eyes, suddenly interrupted when he turned his eyes on his listeners and hypnotized them with his intensity. He preached...
...brought jeeps and trucks and waddling busses, a ceaseless need for speed. But people told each other the hubbub was just a part of war. Then last week, the Assembly voted 2-to-1 to lift the ban on private cars, unanimously to permit taxicabs and motorcycles. Barring a legislative afterthought. Bermuda's restful tempo was gone for good...
...stronger will than most. When she crashed David Belasco's office and recited the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, he advised her to stick to music. The agent for the Aborn Opera Company was less kindly: "The voice may be okay," he said, "but lift your skirt, girlie, so I can see the legs." "Now, as I look back on it," says Grace Moore, "I've had quite a bit of leg trouble. Managers seemed never to consider the voice as a separate entity from what went on below." Her first bigtime job was as an understudy...
Turned down by War Manpower's production urgency committee on a plea to lift his employment ceiling from 42 to , McKinnon won an appeal to the local War Manpower Commission. His argument, backed by Mayor Harley Knox, labor, religious and other groups: there was "community hardship" in that freedom of the press existed only for Colonel Copley's papers...
This is one trouble that limits present airplane speed to around 450 m.p.h. A jet-propulsion ship might conceivably lift the speed ceiling another 250 to 300 m.p.h. Then the plane's surfaces would develop their own burbles and science would have to go to work again...