Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottom was known to be soft, there could be little damage to the ship if she did touch; Nimitz might have considered he was taking a calculated risk. When the ship did touch, we felt no jolt; she just stopped. Engines were reversed. All hands were ordered aft to lift the bow; the ship floated free. Nimitz conscientiously reported the incident...
...city and boat rides down the San Antonio River. When they finally got around to going to bed at the recently constructed El Tropicano Motor Hotel, the reporters found four members of the chamber of commerce on duty around the clock. All a man had to do was lift up his phone and put in his order...
...Cyclazocine has no psychological effects, but Jaffe and Brill wondered if it were not possible to use it to help break behavioral patterns. They decided to try it on outpatients on the theory that when an addict's surroundings led him to take dope, he would get no lift and thus might break the habit of resorting to narcotics when confronting difficult situations...
...think that an Andy Warhol endorsement [Mar. 4] for our liquid helium would be a real "gasser." As the nation's largest supplier, we can keep his balloons filled for life. That ought to give him a lift...
...offing. The government hopes to induce a merger between the two big airframe manufacturers, British Aircraft Corp. and Hawker Siddeley, and perhaps even to try to unite the two proud jet engine builders, Rolls-Royce and Bristol Siddeley. The combined companies presumably would be able to lift productivity, which is only one-third as high as in the U.S. aerospace industry, and two-thirds as high as in the French. By combining resources at home and abroad. British planemakers stand a chance of recapturing the secret that has too often eluded them since World War II: how to make...