Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warsaw. 'Senator' she said to me, 'America is truly the hope of the world.' " But lest the Republicans claim any credit for the Polish lady's faith, he called for an "awakened and rededicated America" under a Democratic party which "will once again lift our country upon the high road of destiny...
...pantomimist in a Seattle jazz joint called No Place: William O. Douglas Jr., 28, son of the Supreme Court Justice. Patterning his antics after France's celebrated Mime Marcel Marceau, young Bill was better than boring, less than soaring. His best act was titled "The Five Thousand Pound Lift," in which he applied a superhuman clean-and-jerk to a gigantic invisible object...
...week's end the fog of mystery began to lift: insiders whispered that a conflict of interests in Chrysler's purchasing policies had brought about Newberg's sudden exit from the presidency. But as for details, most of Chrysler's management, along with everyone else, was still being kept in the dark...
...challenged the earth-centered universe, Montaigne had skeptically consigned man to the lowest rung of the animal kingdom, and Machiavelli had argued that statecraft was a matter of the basest self-interest, devoid of moral principle. Modern man has seen Einstein throw a curve into the cosmos, Freud lift the lid on the cauldron of the unconscious, and Marx upturn continents with the doctrine of dialectical material ism in which the end justifies the means...
...Lift. The biggest general-purpose forklift truck ever made was demonstrated by Clark Equipment Co. The dramatic-looking Ranger-700 can lift 35 tons (35 times the capacity of smaller truck lifts), has 6-ft.-high tires, and two sets of controls, between which the operator in his air-conditioned cab can swing to keep his view unblocked. It can lift a trailer carrying half a dozen autos, hoist truck trailers on and off flat cars in rail road piggybacking. Ford has ordered five for its steel division. Price: $90,000 each...