Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hinted that it might call on the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against the Arabs, and lift the embargo on arms to Israel. "The Arabs," declaimed Syria's Faris el Khoury in reply, "are ready to be killed by your atomic bombs." Khoury and everyone else knew that it would not come to that. But the U.S. and Britain (if it continued to arm Arab states) might easily drift into fighting each other by Jewish and Arab proxies: Or, if Britain joined the U.S. in sanctions against the Arabs, the last chance of winning Arab friendship for the Western...
Matty likes the prospects. His company will take a 5% cut on every ton of goods that it moves. First haul in sight: $170 million worth of rubber, tin, pepper, tapioca, etc., already stockpiled and ready for shipment as soon as the Dutch lift their economic blockade against the islands...
...nomination of Earl Warren was a political bull's-eye. He gave the ticket a psychological lift; he would unquestionably attract millions of "independent voters." Democrats had hoped to make hay out of Republican failure to push through reclamation projects in the West. But it would be futile to play that game against Republican Earl Warren, one of the foremost spokesmen of the eager-beaver West...
...trip's end there was no doubt in the President's mind that he had done himself some good. Most of the people who heard him liked his fight and his folksiness. But his restored confidence did not lift the deep gloom overhanging most of the country's Democrats. Said a California Democrat: "He's a good egg. He'll be the most popular ex-President we've ever had. But you just can't put him back there and let him yack-yack with Congress for another four years...
Ever since war's end the government had intended to lift the embargo (imposed in 1942 at President Roosevelt's request) as soon as it could be done without upsetting the butcher's cart. That day never came. First, the embargo had to be kept to insure a full domestic supply while heavy shipments went to Britain. When it looked as though the British shipments would taper off, there was always some technical reason for keeping the embargo a little longer...