Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then came the turn of elegant Eddie Burke. Expanding his chest, he pledged to wage war on drug pushers and rapists if elected. A Baptist preacher exulted that Burke would create a "spiritual surge that will lift us into orbit for God." More down to earth, Committeeman Marty Tuchow explained: "Nostalgia is fine, but I have to be practical." Translation: Daley is buried, Byrne is mayor, and Byrne was for Burke. Twenty-four committeemen supported Burke...
...producers, Suncor and the Syncrude consortium, are turning out a total of some 150,000 bbl. a day from tar sands. A group headed by Shell has won approval for another project that will cost close to $5 billion and help lift output from the sands to an expected 500,000 bbl. daily by 1985. Meanwhile, Exxon's Imperial Oil plans to spend more than $5 billion to produce oil from heavy crude. These projects may be stretched out if some recent finds of conventional petroleum elsewhere prove more financially attractive. Some oilmen believe that two offshore strikes...
...lurching, walked right into cars on the way down the street. There really was something childlike about Arnold, Hercules decided, not in a bad way, but something refreshing in his simple outlook on life, his naive egoism, his sense of endless possibility. Hercules went back to the gym to lift weights...
...least two House Committees will lift a three-year boycott of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR) by nominating students...
Women are steadily moving deeper into another once exclusive male domain -power lifting. Pam Meister, 24 and 105 Ibs., holds the current women's dead-lift record with 335 Ibs. Though some of her male colleagues at Gold's gave her a chilly reception, Meister hung tough. "I decided that I had to let them know this wasn't some kind of joke for me," she says, "so I dead-lifted 300 Ibs. three times. Since then it's been downhill...