Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Command believed at first that the gremlins climbed aboard in mid-air from the wings of sea gulls. It is generally believed now, however, that the gremlins have wings on their shoulders, but, if so, the wings are invisible in photographs (see cut). One school of thought favors vertical-lift propellers on each shoulder. The Coastal Command learned that gremlins love to punch holes in pontoons, jab pilots in the back when they are too busy to scratch, or drink up all the gasoline except just enough to make a landing...
...Mobile, Ala., Negro Private Henry Williams had words with white Bus Driver Grover Chandler. Police said the soldier was shot and killed after he had asked the driver to lift his suitcase off the bus. Driver Chandler, 29, was charged with murder...
Lifter. In Patchogue, L.I., Frank T. Marino, who had gallantly given a lift to a woman whose car had broken down, was given 180 days in jail for returning to her car and stealing two tires...
...Kaiser had talked of devoting nine shipyards to construction of 5,000 planes. He could start the first 100 at one of his Pacific Coast yards, where great fabricating and assembly shops could be converted to plane building and the huge cranes used for shipbuilding are big enough to lift even giant planes like the Mars...
...slow speed, so that a woman's voice sounds like a man's, a man's like a growl. In this way he can hear details more clearly. Says he: "It is like looking through a microscope." After every bar or two, he must lift the needle to write down what he has heard. Folk tunes are seldom sung precisely the same way twice; noting the slight variations is an important, tricky part of his work...