Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...following day the Nationalists were in full retreat, plunging northward through Shanghai's jammed and clamorous heart. Some outfits marched through almost in parade formation; others, caked with mud from the battlefields, streaked through the city in terror and confusion, taking with them everything they could lift, carry or roll...
Robert Maulden, who took a short lift in a "new, red" car from someone he assumes is a senior, picked up a manila envelope containing the valuables from the back seat of the car when he lifted out his coat...
...meeting ground for the U.S.'s Philip Jessup and Russia's Jakov Malik when they began negotiating the Berlin blockade's end. Actually the job the Assembly had done was middling. It had (among other things) admitted Israel to U.N.; defeated a Latin American motion to lift the diplomatic boycott of Spain; again asked the Big Five to curb their veto. Perhaps the most significant measure-though it had little hope of success-was the decision to establish a committee to study ways & means of increasing U.N.'s efficiency, cut out unnecessary talk...
...Birds. One such "little thing" in Bishop's new show was a picture of a girl bending to drink from a fountain in Union Square. "I've got pages & pages of sketches of men and girls drinking out of that fountain," she says. "You know, most people lift one leg when they drink. Some put their hands behind them. Others embrace the bowl. But it's so quick and nice - nice-like birds, they drink and fly away - and I have a devil of a time. You could easily pose a person there, of course, but that...
Then President Truman, who loves to trade Bible learning, quoted from memory another pertinent passage (Isaiah 2:4): "And . . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." Fifteen minutes later they were still swapping biblical quotations when the President's secretary reluctantly broke in to announce the next caller...