Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clouded with contradictions. Authoritative reports boiled down to this: there was probably food enough to feed the continent meagrely through the winter, if Germany would or could distribute it. Cold probability was that the victims of the Nazis faced famine. Fortnight ago, Herbert Hoover proposed that the British lift their blockade to let ships from the U. S. pass through with supplies for Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland. According to Mr. Hoover, his proposal was put up to the British Government by Hugh Gibson, the London representative of the European Food Distribution Commission...
...college but I am at least in that age group and would like to lift a shout that makes up in quality what it lacks in quantity...
...Seeking to emulate radio, which got its first big lift from the 1924 Democratic Convention, television backers gave their product its first big play. Individual close-ups of speakers showed up well on the screen; long shots were fuzzy...
...appointments only as a smart device for affecting the political campaign, the President may well have viewed them as useful for less partisan purposes-useful perhaps to lend new hope to Britain, whose immediate collapse would place the U. S. in an even more dangerous position, useful possibly to lift the desperate efforts of the U. S. to a non-partisan plane, where they could command the united efforts...
Satisfied that he had the answer to vertical-lift flight, Igor Sikorsky was also satisfied that he needed only a new engine to make his machine go high in the air, travel long distances at better than 100 miles an hour. Already under way in the Vought-Sikorsky plant is a new helicopter with a 200-h.p. engine...