Word: liftings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bound to be found out by the Viet Cong. Just as the French learned during their long, losing Indo-China campaign, the South Vietnamese and their U.S. advisers were discovering that you can't swat a fly with a sledgehammer-particularly if it takes too long to lift the hammer...
...Atlantic at a top speed of only 14 knots. But they proudly pointed out that they had put 28,000 men ashore at a cost of $10,300,000, given them enough supplies to fight self-sufficiently for nearly a month. The Air Force's Operation Big Lift in October 1963 had required $20 million to fly some 15,000 soldiers in 63 hours from the U.S. to Europe, where they picked up pre-positioned supplies...
...book gets no lift from Mark Sandrich Jr.'s music-to-yawn-by, and Director-Choreographer Michael Kidd unleashes his dancers only once for some sword and gun play. No one could coax a poor performance out of Robert Preston, but his hard-sell charm, snap and gusto create the curious impression of a history-book minstrel man in whiteface. Still, he could save the show if there was one to save...
...compete against Ford's Cortina and G.M.'s Vauxhall Viva. In Germany, the larger Volkswagen "1500" has made up some of the sales that the old beetle-back has lost. The French auto industry, which has not introduced a new model all year, looks forward to a lift next spring, when Renault and Peugeot will bring out fresh designs...
Divinity as Beauty. Lips lift in a sublime smile, torsos twist into reverse curves that enliven flesh, and ornament clings to smoothly modeled skin like a caress of art given to nature. Beauty was a reflection of divinity, just as the slender saints that adorn Chartres cathedral are the disembodied spirits of medieval Christianity...