Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them have their good points, and together form a sort of triumphal procession. They range from the slow torching of So in Love Am I to the fast jive of Too Darn Hot, from the musical brio of We Open in Venice to the verbal lift of Always True to You (In My Fashion). And again & again melody and mockery go hand in hand-nowhere better than in Wunderbar, a charming bit of schmalz-and a devilish parody...
...seven being readied for take-off-and rubbed his finger on its heavy underbelly. "Frost," he said. He called for a crew of men with long-handled mops to swash off the wings with antifreeze. "With this load," said MacWilliams, "we need every bit of lift we can get." He climbed into the plane, checked the guy ropes holding the huge burlap rice sacks, moved on to the cockpit and, with the help of his Chinese copilot, got his engines sputtering, then roaring. The plane took...
...object of all this billingsgate is a devoutly religious-and highly litigious-Quaker who has never been known to fire a shot, lift his fist, or even raise his soft voice in anger. Andrew Russell Pearson is a tall, tweedy, disarmingly mild-mannered fellow, with thinning light brown hair, a sparse mustache and earnest mien; he looks like a shy, quizzical cow college professor-except for his wary blue eyes. The mild manner camouflages a tough, diamond-hard core. And his casual clothes, his innocuously small-town look serve him well in Washington's lower echelons, where many...
...generalities, involving who thinks what in terms of nations and governments, it is extremely difficult to judge the alternatives. Before the State Department's experts recommend our signing the Pact, they must be sure that this would not preclude negotiations with Russia in the future and that the psychological lift to Europe outbalances the additional irritant factor. Under these circumstances, United States participation in the North Atlantic Pact takes on the aspect of an unfortunate necessity...
...What's with the Army?' It's as if I was ready to go to jail." He thought he'd see a doctor. He thought he would go see New York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan and try to get Eddie to lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli...