Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as Uncle Joe could lift a telephone, Grundyism would still have a voice in Pennsylvania. "I'll always want to know what is going on in the attic," said Uncle...
...praying, she said, that he would be the greatest President in history. When he left, to give his brother Vivian a lift across town, and then to return to Kansas City and the Sacred Cow, she told him, as always...
That, apparently, was the lift Bill Knowland needed. He sailed into Washington with the enthusiasm of a man determined to stay. He was an attentive, fair-minded and active member of the Atomic Energy Committee. He startled the party sages who expected him merely to sit tight, learn the ropes and follow the leaders. He had always had an unusual head for facts & figures. Now he had shown that he also had parliamentary skill...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
Near Mont Tremblant's slopes and mile-long chair lift is the plushy Manoir Pinoteau, which features French cooking. A short run away is a more typical Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand...