Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they'll get a Jew the next time, then a Negro.") Khrushchev helps the Republicans, and so does the memory of Cabot Lodge just across the river at the U.N. (By contrast, Lyndon Johnson's name is conspicuously missing from Democratic buttons, posters.) Republicans also expect a lift from the large influx of white-collar conservatives to the bedroom suburbs. Kennedy ahead...
...weeks go by, Franklin fights his way out of despair, out of an oppressive sense of permanent isolation from the everyday, active world he loves, out of nightmare fears that a fire may break out in the house and burn him alive while he lies unable to lift a finger. He fights his way, day by day, muscle by muscle, out of paralysis. When the infection subsides, Franklin's fingers are too weak to lift a teaspoon, but some months later he can chin himself on the therapeutic bar that hangs above...
...maternity dresses ($30 to $40 apiece). Jackie, they discovered, was upset about a New York Times Sunday Magazine story reporting that many women are disturbed over her "devil-may-care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year for togs at famous Parisian houses, such as Cardin, Grès, Balenciaga, Chanel, Givenchy. She buys avant-garde models, added Women's Wear breathlessly, and most of the big designers...
Richard Nixon: I had given Nixon many a lift over the years when he was a rising young politician. But the Vice President was careful to do nothing to discourage his own followers in the House from supporting Halleck...
...lustily stage-minded not to want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck and deposit him on the other admirably indicates the kind of general lift he has given Pinafore...