Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such terms did the defense attorney for Irvin C. Scarbeck, 41, a former U.S. embassy official in Poland, describe his client last week. Scarbeck's inner softness led him to lift thin, black-haired Urszula Discher, 22, "up from the gutter," take her as his mistress and then protect her from public disclosure by feeding secrets to Communist agents who had photographed them in bed together...
...operating room in University Hospital. Columbus, under heavy sedation and local anesthetics. From the thigh. Surgeon Saunders took a "split-thickness graft"-a piece of skin about two by three inches less than 1/50 inch thick. Then he cut loose both sides of the nose so that he could lift them like flaps to get at the lower part of the septum, the gristly central partition. He scraped the mucous lining off this, removing many of the telangiectases with the membrane. Finally, Dr. Saunders put patches of the graft skin on each side of the septum, sewed the nose together...
...Remove clothing only if it will lift off easily. And cut it away-"Never spare the garment; spare the skin...
...Ruth's homer in the 1932 Series and Cookie Lavagetto's 1947 double.* A home run, it broke up the ball game and broke Cincinnati's heart. "That was the turning point," said Manager Hutchinson later. "We never were the same after that. We got no lift, we had no spark, and we went nowhere...
...effort to save her, he finds a justification for his own life. At the Sistine Chapel, facing Michelangelo's Last Judgment, the failed painter delivers a soliloquy. " 'Okay, Angelo,' he said to himself grimly. 'I came into that chapel of yours expecting a big lift. That finger of God of yours came right down and you stuck it in my eye. Maybe my canvases should all be thrown out. Or some landlady will use them to cover holes in the wall in some cheap rooming house. But maybe it's as big, even a bigger...