Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will have some satisfaction in knowing that your magazine, many a time, reaches common men beyond the educated elite in India. The lift boy in my office glanced at the cover photograph on the copy of TIME that I was reading in the elevator, and observed, "That's the shadow of a brigand falling on Nehru's face. We will remove this shadow." He took the magazine and then chanced to see the inside picture of Nehru embracing Chou Enlai, and said in horror: "Ghost of our sinful past! Bury...
Dolls may also be bought. They drink, cry, wet, move their hands around, and talk. It is reported that there is a mechanical man for sale "who can lift up Daddy...
...paces over the head of a Spanish grandee. Once he flew for Pope Urban VIII. Several times he flew with a friar in his arms, and once, according to some not unimpeachable sources, he flew about 70 yds., picked up a 36-ft. cross that ten men could not lift, and stood it upright "as if it were a straw." Naturally enough, the Franciscans were not loath to display their miracle man; naturally enough, other orders were jealous and denounced Father Giuseppe as a would-be Messiah. His last years were spent in close seclusion and continual rapture. "And what...
...made his choice. He phoned an aged and loyal pal in New York. "Get my obituary ready." he said. Next morning, his wife Ruth, returning from an errand, saw him on the porch of the cabin where he kept his books and his shotgun. Would he like a lift to the main house? "No," said Stanley Walker. "You come back a little later." When he was alone, he put the muzzle of the shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger...
...little-known discounters just to save a few dollars. Says one Hertz executive: "Businessmen on expense accounts just don't care about a bargain." But if the company controllers who check expense accounts begin to care more about a bargain, the discounters could get quite a lift...