Word: lifted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard disagreed and tried to convince the judge to lift the ban on construction...
Neither Gau nor Weathers, both in critical condition, would have survived were it not for Lieut. Colonel Madan K.C., a Nepalese helicopter pilot. Choppers seldom venture above 6,000 meters: at a certain height, the thin air reduces their lift. Yet Madan flew up to a giant cross the climbers had painted on the Everest ice with red Kool-Aid. There he hovered, runners just touching the snow's treacherous surface, as Gau was loaded on board. Madan flew Gau down to the base camp, then repeated the process with Weathers. It was the second-highest helicopter rescue in history...
...pick up that fiddle,/ Ooh and play that steel guitar,/ Ooh and find your- self a lady,/ Ooh and dance right where you are." This buoyant song allows you to do nothing else. It proves there's no misery, public or private, so deep that good music can't lift you out of it. Lovett's album plunges and soars like the mood of any lover, and here reaches a wry affirmation--one you can square-dance...
...cloud droplets and then into rain. At that point, the air--now denser because it is colder--starts to sink. But at the same time, the process of condensation that created the rain releases so much latent heat that the air around it warms up again and retains its lift...
...lift my lamp beside the golden door...