Word: liftings
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...