Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that TIME has decided to break the rule. Speculating on the authorship of the Marian Anderson story, Marjorie Kinnan (The Yearling) Rawlings wrote: "My belated obeisances for the magnificent story on Marian Anderson. It was so beautifully written (my guess would be Whittaker Chambers) and gave such a spiritual lift." Novelist Rawlings guessed right...
...last week the 6,000-odd old men, old women and young children who survived (at least 6,000 others had starved, most youths had escaped) had hope at last. Nationalist troops were advancing into the area, might soon lift the long siege. To Yungnien elders, looking fearfully toward the skies, it seemed about time. Between Communist mortars and Nationalist loaves, they had long ago lost pride in the literal translation of Yungnien's honored name: "Everlasting Year...
...plan represented compromise on all sides. The Navy now gave in on the overall secretaryship; the Army had dropped its demand for an overall military commander. The Billy Mitchell school of airmen won the main bout for a separate air force charged with strategic bombing, support of ground troops, lift of airborne soldiers and air defense...
...death racket. A place where you go to see the last of your earthly companions should be a happy place; it should leave you with the feeling that death is no curse, that all is not lost because of it. People will weep, of course, but give them a lift with beauty. Put living things around; flowers that grow, not bouquets that smell...
...hundred water colors, oils, etchings from Marin's sizable output (he averages 30 or 40 water colors a year).* Most were balanced skeins of color which caught, as if in shorthand, the feel of Marin's Maine and Manhattan. The best of them, which had the lift and sparkle of a sunny day at sea, looked as if they had taken a couple of minutes to paint. "It is like golf," Marin once explained. "The fewer strokes I can take, the better the picture...