Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lift my lamp beside the golden door...
Most of all, Admiral Leahy was in Vichy to give a lift to French morale. Since former Ambassador William Bullitt's departure from France last summer, the French had had only meagre and discouraging reports on U. S. opinion of them. It was Ambassador Leahy's mission to give a defeated sister nation warm assurances of U. S. sympathy...
...aircraft began going downhill fast. I slid back the hood and began to get out, my goggles were shipped off and my helmet began to lift up in the slip stream; I realized I hadn't undone my straps so I pulled out the retain ing pin and stood up, standing on anything which came handy (the seat, the instrument panel or the stick, I don't know really...
...Wild Chicago, When the Time Is Ripe for Ruin's deeds, When constitutions, courts and laws Go down midst crashing creeds, Lift up your weak and guilty hands From out the wreck of states, And as the crumbling towers fall down, Write ALTGELD on your gates! Thus adjured the outraged New York Sun in 1893. Called anarchist (for freeing three of the Haymarket rioters) and blamed for the great Pullman strike was Illinois' liberal Governor John Peter Altgeld. Years afterwards Poet Vachel Lindsay wrote a poem about him (The Eagle That Is Forgotten}, Biographer Carl Sandburg called...
...catalogue's shoe prices are down around 10%. Grey-goods prices have risen 15%, but its cotton sheet and print items are down around 14%. Farm prices have risen 6% since August, and these reductions should give the farm section of the mail-order customers a powerful lift in buying power...