Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hold, hold the golden light and lift...
...Lift up America, O lift...
...checking up, he perhaps made some notes on his cuff as he went along: noted how the wind seeped through the flimsy walls of the Eastbound Inn at the Newfoundland base as the ferry crews waited for the weather to lift. He would need no notes to remember the radio jam as the squadron approached Britain, and plane after plane called for bearings from ground stations...
...holiday morning through thick clouds and a gale of wind to the second highest peak in the Presidential Range. On the summit there was already six to eight inches of snow. Only in the afternoon as the hikers started down, did the sun break through and the clouds lift to give a view of the range and a bit of saving warmth to the tired trippers...
...Somehow the soldier had to be fired with pride in his job. Today, working away at his term of service and anxious to get out, the draftee who makes up most of the Army is a guy in a baggy, ill-fitting, dun-colored suit. If he gets no lift from his job, it is partly because civilians do not recognize him for what he is: a self-sacrificing server and defender of his country...