Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rhineland and central Germany. In the Korean war, he ended up as Eighth Army Commander Maxwell Taylor's chief of staff. He directed U.S. Army and Marine forces in the landings in Lebanon in 1958. Last fall he was the key commander in the huge "Operation Big Lift" that sent 15,377 men and 445 tons of combat equipment to Europe in 63 hours...
...jewel thief that he wants to nab. Some of Sellers' sight gags are funny, but not funny enough to keep this over-waxed comedy from schussing steadily downhill at the recherche Italian ski resort where Panther's high-priced actors search in vain for a lift...
Dragging Dollars. The financial side of the supersonic is dragging even more. To give it some lift, President Johnson has appointed a seven-man board of directors, including former World Bank President Eugene Black and Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, to advise him. The Government originally planned to put up 75% of the supersonic's estimated $1 billion development cost, but Black has recommended a costlier 90 to 10 split with the manufacturers...
...dead when we picked him up," said Leo Sutton, a demonstrator who helped lift the body from the ground...
...countrymen. Goulart has cut off all discount loans from the Bank of Brazil to politically unfriendly banks, has nationalized oil refineries and threatened to expropriate almost everything else in sight. He favors legalizing the Communist Party, is campaigning also for sweeping constitutional "reforms" that would enfranchise millions of illiterates, lift the constitutional ban on a second straight term for Brazil's Presidents...