Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lift from Science. All the attacks and polls also nudged the hitherto disdainful De Gaulle into more campaigning. At midweek he reversed an earlier decision to fill all but eight minutes of his allotted two hours of television cam paign time with classical music and documentary films. This week le grand Charles himself will take to the tube twice. Even the scientists gave his belated campaign an extra lift last week as the first French satellite-a 92-lb. candy-striped "bonbon called A-l-soared into victorious if not quite perfect orbit from the Algerian Sahara...
...Shelburne that he was prepared to hold separate talks with England, but only if England would acknowledge that it was dealing, not with rebellious colonies, but with the United States of America. Well aware that America was the lever that could swing the general settlement, Shelburne was delighted to lift the lever out of Vergennes' hands. He agreed to recognize the U.S., and on Oct. 29, 1782, negotiations began on a semisecret basis -that is to say, the U.S. commissioners truthfully told Vergennes that they were talking with the English, but untruthfully told him that talks were stalled...
...Lift from a Plane. Because the basic ramjet is just about the simplest power plant ever to be airborne, its promise has always excited aeronautical engineers. Unlike the conventional jet, it has neither a complex turbine nor a compressor; it is an open-ended cylinder, known as a "flying stovepipe," with only fuel injection and ignition systems inside...
...operate, it must first be accelerated to a speed of several hundred miles per hour by an auxiliary turbojet or rocket engine, or get a lift from a conventional plane. After that, enough air is rammed into the engine's front inlet to set up a pressure barrier that forces the burning gases to escape at the rear, thus providing thrust (see diagram...
...remained for the 20-minute-long fifth movement, which one critic called "among the very greatest things that Mahler has left us," to lift the pall of futility. The doom-laden thump of a muffled drum, an idea that Mahler conceived one day when he heard the drums of a funeral procession passing his Manhattan apartment, intrudes repeatedly, driving back the forces of light. Then, unfurling slowly, the divergent strands of the opening themes are resolved in a finale of radiant transfiguration, ending as serenely as oncoming sleep - or death. "The Tenth" says Cooke, "holds the secret of Mahler...