Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...associates in Government stood in a White House office room, their gaze fastened upon a television screen. Like millions of Americans in millions of other homes, they held their breath, crossed their fingers and prayed as they watched the Redstone rocket belch flame on its Cape Canaveral firing pad, lift off with maddening slowness, then streak magnificently southward...
...Seeing that, Republicans began to buckle. Six New Jersey Republicans decided to vote for the bill, fearing that to do otherwise would cost former Labor Secretary James Mitchell the support of labor in his run for the governorship. Five Massachusetts Republicans also voted "aye," if only to lift Southern wages closer to their own and thus slow the exodus of New England's textile industry to the South...
...silvered pressure suit, Astronaut Shepard seemed a creature from another planet as he stepped out of a white van into the baleful Florida dawn last week. He glittered under the searchlights that surrounded the rocket pad as he made his long-legged walk to the gantry elevator that would lift him to his capsule. When he rose to the "greenhouse," an enclosed platform at the gantry's 65-ft. level, technicians helped him squeeze through a hatch in the squat, black space capsule perched atop a Redstone rocket. Then he submitted to the time-consuming business of being strapped...
...lose fabric of the songs very well together. Still, the songs were uneven due to both technical and aesthetic failings. Too often a phrase played with nuance would give way to harsh tone, an abrupt entrance or an uncomfortable "hole," or else a passage competently played would lack lift and fall short of expressiveness...
Democratic Reluctance. For President Kennedy, passage of the wage bill was a must. Last month the House had handed him his first major loss by batting down his bill by a single vote and passing a Republican measure that would lift the wage floor from $1 to $1.15 and extend coverage to 1,400,000 additional workers, all of them engaged in interstate commerce. Kennedy wanted much more: a two-stage boost to $1.25 by mid-1963, with coverage for 4,100,000 more workers, mostly in the retail trades...