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Word: liftings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight yards back, senior Tim McLoone and sophomore Dave Pottetti were having problems. McLoone, troubled by a strained thigh muscle for several weeks, found it impossible to lift his knee to mount the hills and was forced out of the race...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Happy Harriers Hobble Opponents in Weekend Meet | 9/30/1968 | See Source »

...body of a 34-year-old Negro man was found hanging by the heels Saturday outside an abandoned school house. The police identified the victim as E. C. Deloach, a fork lift operator on the Mobile docks...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: High School Graduates Who Can't READ?! | 9/28/1968 | See Source »

There is nothing new or astonishing about Tiger. There is no particularly ingenious heist, no character out of Krafft-Ebing, no bloodshed or lubricity. The things that happen have happened in many another movie. It is the people they happen to that lift the film up and hold it there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Cat with Character | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...stage Poseidon was first to lift off, at 6:30 a.m. Roaring up from darkness into the Florida dawn, the missile was illuminated by the rays of the rising sun. Leaving a psychedelic trail of ionized gases, it streaked away. Barely 10 minutes had elapsed after lift-off when it was announced that Poseidon had sped to a perfect splashdown, 1,150 miles away down the Atlantic missile range. Then came the taller, three-stage Minuteman III. Launched at 4:30 p.m. in a geyser of orange flame, it raced 5,000 miles to another brilliant on-target splashdown near...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Two for the Arsenal | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

French workers, besides splurging on vacations at a rate unprecedented in a holiday-happy country, spent enough of their higher wages to lift July retail sales 10% above the 1967 level. Strike-depleted inventories have shrunk so low that many industries expect a manufacturing boom in the fall. Says Finance Minister François-Xavier Ortoli: "The outlook is better than we could have ex pected. The economy is righting itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Fighting Chance | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

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