Word: lifting
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...managed to capture, in a brief speech, the promise of progressive politics and the magic of America. The man is impossible to caricature: he speaks just as strongly about God’s gifts and the limits of government as he does about America’s responsibility to lift workers out of poverty. Obama is an optimist despite setbacks, an intellectual with a common touch and a professional politician who can truly inspire...
...India's water paradox than the view from Captain Singh's cockpit. The women of Cherrapunji are small and muscular, their cheeks lined with the same parched wrinkles as the wild land of their birth. Their sinewy bodies tell the story of how, six months of the year, they lift empty oilcans on their backs and trek a kilometer to a stream to fetch water. "Still, there isn't enough," says widow Dorjon Nongrun. Once called the "Scotland of the East" by the British, Cherrapunji lost its trees and topsoil after decades of slash-and-burn agriculture. Today, fruit...
...Norte. It's ugly work (you may want to avert your eyes while she is endlessly swallowing the drugs)--and dangerous too. If a packet breaks, the heroin will kill the carrier. But, of course, the money is great--thousands of dollars for a week's unpleasantness, enough to lift Maria's fractious family out of poverty and pay for the birth of the baby she is carrying...
...kind of urgency informs [books],” Morrison said. “An urgency that can lift the veil that has descended over honest informative public debate...
Mentioning such past American innovations as the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane prototypes, the moon-shot program of John F. Kennedy ’40, also a former Crimson editor, and microchip technology, Kerry said he would lift current administrative restrictions on embryonic stem cell research—and, in perhaps his deftest segue, tied this into the convention’s theme of an optimistic party on the brink...