Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chile's President did not ask-or expect-a massive infusion of emergency funds. He intends to float a special bond issue at home to finance reconstruction, thus leaving the $1 billion national budget intact. "We cannot appeal to the world every four years to help us lift ourselves from the ground," he said. "We Chileans ourselves will raise the towns that were destroyed...
...balding rugby player, Courrèges took both the bouquets and brickbats in his stride, innocently denied that his main aim was to lift the skirts of the Western world. "I'm not interested in a woman's knees. What's important is that the rhythm and volume of the whole be right." He insisted that customers who would be flying skirts at three-quarter mast should wear boots to boot. "Without them," he protests, "short skirts look ridiculous...
...nation's economic growth. To remedy the situation, America's more than 1,000 shoe manufacturers are rapidly changing shapes, styles, selling strategies and even materials. Last week, at the National Shoe Fair in Manhattan, they showed off 300,000 kinds of footwear designed to give a lift to their old and slow business...
Midwestern students are turning to the ski slopes of Aspen, Colo., and Taos, N. Mex., while West Coast kids like Mammoth Mountain in the Sierras, which is now so swamped that skiers wait 45 minutes for a lift. A few students, here and there, are going all the way to Italy or Spain. And, as ever, there is also a small clique of connoisseurs who insist on going to a great place called New York...
...plane its size. It mounts its four engines aft on twin pods attached to the fuselage, much like the smaller two-engine French Caravelle and three-engine Boeing medium-range 727. This design leaves its swept-back wingspan uncluttered, permits slower landing speeds, shorter takeoffs and more dependable lift. For the passengers, there is more comfort: more leg room, improved air conditioning and a considerably quieter ride...