Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens to be the world's best bobsledder. "I cannot explain it," he says. "I can only...
...missing bomb 1,200 ft. under water. Though frogmen were readily available, the bomb lay far below the depth at which SPECTRE's flippered villains so easily recovered the "Thunderball" of James Bond's latest cinematic adventure. The real thing was far harder to lift. In order to recover the bomb, American officials called on devices that even Ian Fleming had never conceived: the whale-shaped Aluminaut (TIME, Sept. 11, 1964), a 51-ft., three-man sub devised by General Dynamics Corp. to probe 17,000 ft. beneath the sea's surface...
These classics are often locked away, Harvey said, because the large companies are uninterested in their relatively limited appeal. "If a big executive can make a thousand dollars by lifting one finger, he doesn't want to lift two," be explained...
...raise money for the Viet Nam war and domestic expenses, the Government was forced last week to lift its 91-day bill yield to an alltime high 4.673%. President Johnson also instructed Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler to boost the interest rates on U.S. Savings Bonds, probably from 3¾% to 4¼%. Meanwhile, some AAA corporate bonds now yield close to 5%, and banks have begun to pay up to 5½% for time deposits...
After Drake's desertion, command was awarded to Chief Magistrate John Zephaniah Holwell, a man with a will to win. The garrison, now reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...