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Word: liftings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Planning for the "attack" began more than a week ago when band members who were feeling blue because of upcoming exams, decided they needed a lift...

Author: By Preston W. Brooks and Deborahl L. Paul, S | Title: Bulldog Invaders Bark Up Harvard's Trees | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

...three policemen step out front and level their pistols at the crowd. Blam, blam, blam, blam, blam. They empty their guns at the kids. Several people go down. But they are not lift; they're ducking. It takes about half a minute for the Weathermen to realize that those were blanks. But by then they are retreating. They have no guns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weathermen're Shot, They're Bleeding, They're Running, They're Wiping Stuff Out | 4/9/1983 | See Source »

Cambridge Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci last night endorsed ex-Vice President Walter J. Mondale for the 1984 Democratic nomination for president, saying he is "convinced that Mondale will lift the American people out of the sense of despair into which they have faller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Velluccif Endorses Mondale for '84 | 4/5/1983 | See Source »

...Phoenix calls "the abortion tapdance." According to Joshua Resnek, her former campaign press secretary. Margaret Heckler put Pierce at the top of her list of reporters not to be talked to--right after Chris Black, the Boston Globe reporter who gave the world the scoop about Heckler's face lift...

Author: By Kathleen I. Kouril, | Title: Peggy's Pirouette | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

Bacon, a notably venturesome and versatile young actor, wavers in and out of a Scottish brogue but ably blends charm, petulance, wit and selfishness as a would-be artist who counts on his talent to lift him up. Penn persuasively portrays a clever lad who is so defeated that he cannot imagine a light, or even an end to the tunnel. The two young men's high-kicking, cruel humor works better in the play's free-form first act than in the second, which is overladen with plot. But at every moment they capture the futile bravado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Hopeless Nights, Dreamless Days | 3/28/1983 | See Source »

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