Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confidence. To Tommy Kono, the secret lies in the power of positive thinking. "Successful weight lifting is not in the body," says Kono. "It's in the mind. You have to strengthen your mind to shut out everything-the man with the camera, the laugh or cough in the audience. You can lift as much as you believe you can. Your body can do what you will...
...over in 1955. Under Waugh, loans last year hit a record $535.9 million. Waugh has stretched his charter a bit to keep Ex-Im operations flexible. Sample: massive stabilization loans ($100 million to Mexico, $25 million to Chile) are not meant to be spent but to give a psychological lift to a currency threatened by inflation or devaluation. But further than that Waugh will not go, or even look. "I'm a lender, not a giver," he says, and he proudly claims a default rate of less than 1%. The bank has reserves of over $600 million...
...fine but small missile with definite payload limitations. Already in the works are plans to make re-entry bodies maneuver so that their courses will be unpredictable and hard to intercept. To do this, the re-entering bodies must have controls and some sort of wings to give them lift, or to make them plunge steeply, or to let them dodge from side to side...
...shows the two men in death cells, writing their last letters. There are Sacco's farewell words to his son: "And you will also not forget to love me a little, for I do-Oh, Sonny!, thinking so much and so often of you . . ." The words lift the scene above matters of law or even justice to the simple level of love and sorrow...
...issued a glowing report that the program is now rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress since removal of a chest cancer last summer. His prognosis will be reported to him soon...