Word: lifting
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...practice in mid-March, the girls go through one part of their routine with a green elastic dance band, which they roll into a ball, put behind their heads, and use to lift their legs to the ceiling in a matter of seconds. If a dancer drops the band, it would be next to impossible for her to catch up with the fast-paced routine...
...dreams all run together. Feed the world. Make a joyful noise, raise a ruckus and millions of dollars. Lift a voice. Lend a hand. Come to Wembley Stadium, in London. Go down to John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia. Turn on the television. Be a part...
...built a hierarchical organization that Adams might well admire. McFarlane retains independent access to the President on foreign policy problems, or did before Reagan's surgery. But otherwise, says one veteran of Reagan's first term White House staff, "Don has asserted himself so that nobody is able to lift a finger without his blessing...
...letter: "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response." Erupting from a church history that either ignored nuclear weapons or, in the nationalistic enthusiasms of some clergymen, saw such weapons as new arms for Christian soldiers, the bishops suddenly leaped forward: "We cannot avoid our responsibility to lift up the moral dimensions of the choices before our world and nation." They emphasized that they were speaking purely from a moral pulpit, "as pastors, not politicians." No sooner had they spoken, however, than many conservative American Catholics, among others, faulted their logic: the moral issue of the Bomb could...
...hospital window, saying, "Somebody get down there and stop that clown from chopping wood before he disturbs the President!" The man beside her looks down and says, "Good heavens ... that is the President!" Reagan showed the cartoon around Bethesda Naval Hospital, only to have some of the nurses lift their eyebrows over the ample proportions of the nurse in the drawing. "So when I left the hospital," Reagan said, "I told all of [the nurses] I was going to do my utmost to see that the image as portrayed was corrected in the cartoon industry...