Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...profit. But the amateurs, obviously convinced that the bottom is yet to come, calmly watched the market go through low after low without making a move. And the longer they wait, the less likely it is that their eventual buying will give the Dow-Jones average any significant lift...
Less than 24 hours earlier, the chartered jet was roaring down the Orly runway on takeoff. Unaccountably, it failed to lift. The pilot jammed down on the brakes, threw the powerful engines into reverse thrust. But the speed and momentum were too great. The plane rocketed ahead, plowed through a fence, grazed a house, and smashed to pieces in a fiery cloud, killing eight French crew members and 122 passengers. Miraculously, two stewardesses were thrown clear...
...twelve men crouching behind the tank were cut down. A Venezuelan navy chaplain stepped into the street and walked from body to body calling "Hijo, hijo" (Son, son) until he found one badly wounded soldier still alive. He tried to lift the wounded man, and a burst of machine-gun fire spattered at his feet. The wounded man started crawling out of the line of fire, and the rebels finished...
Thus, Dodds can say, "It is not correct to attribute failure, or even second-class citizenship, to those who may lack the talents that make them well publicized personally but who operate quietly to improve the quality of their institutions. To lift a college from relative mediocrity to relative excellence is a notable achievement...Progress throughout all levels is inspired by emulation as well as by innovation...
Opatashu) gives Giovanni a Machiavellian idea. By tunneling from his basement to the Uriti basement kitchen, Giovanni can lift food off the Uriti dumbwaiter, serve it in his own place at cut rates, and not only stay competitive but ruin Uriti...