Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lower ceiling than the Fortresses, Liberators fly faster, carry four tons of bombs on their extreme range of 3,000 miles to the Fortresses' three tons over 3,500 miles. Redesigning will give both planes room for an even greater load, which they already have the power to lift. After Lille, the shape of things to come was clear: eruption by day, as well as by night, of the volcano over Germany...
...place and were annoyed at being ousted. They used to steal or break anything new we put in the house, pour water in the new paint cans for painting the house, snatch the hub caps off the cars of anyone ^ho tried to visit us, and generally made lift miserable...
...ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take men without a thought to WMC. All McNutt can do is persuade Major General Lewis B. Hershey, National Director of Selective Service, to issue directives...
...ideas, from ruffles to shoes to dinner-table glassware-the fashions which had that indefinable "smartness" which he could sense, almost by smell. Then he-and they-went to work on the presentation-to "bait the editorial pages," as he once unblushingly said, "in such a way as to lift out of all the millions of Americans just the 100,000 cultivated people who can buy these quality goods...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...