Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to say a thing about it." All of which left it pretty much up to the U.S. to make its own judgments about the President's health-and the nation could hardly be happy about what it saw. A "cherry picker" elevator was used to lift the President, grim-faced and ignoring the photographers below, aboard his plane in Palm Beach, and a similar device lowered him to the ground in Washington. He canceled one scheduled speech, delivered a second -to the National Conference on International Economic and Social Development -seated in a chair. When callers came...
...wings have ever had as many appendages as are planned for the 727. As the swift airliner slows for landing, its thin, swept-back wings will grow like opening umbrellas. On their leading edges small "Kreuger flaps" will tilt outward, making the wing effectively thicker and giving it extra lift. Simultaneously, a strange structure will slide out of the wing's trailing edge. Segmented flaps will move backward and downward, deflecting the air stream sharply and adding still more lift. Filling the angle between wing and fuselage, the huge flaps will turn the wing into an almost perfect triangle...
Ring of Fire (M-G-M). "Maybe I can give you a lift," suggests Iaconic David (TV's Richard Diamond) Janssen, the deputy sheriff of a small Oregon town...
...lift the sense of doom, Author Uris relies not on comic but on sensual relief. Andrei carries on a years-long affair with a Polish Catholic girl of disconcertingly bobby-soxish ardor ("Isn't he yummy?"). And the grand passion of the book involves a Jewish mother of two and an Italo-American journalist who deices her frigidity. Throughout, Uris' dialogue conjures up hours of bad movie time...
...sail downwards in any direction according to the set of the rudder . . . When any person ran forward in it with his full speed, taking advantage of a gentle breeze in front, it would bear upward so strongly as scarcely to allow him to touch the ground, and would frequently lift him up and convey him several yards together...