Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even considering letting tourists into Bavaria to help the Germans get some dollar credits. Next year there will be a good bit of transportation available on planes (an estimated 100,000 seats) and ships (200,000). The big catch was to get the U.S. Department of State to lift the ban on tourists. But American Express was so hopeful that this would be done by summer that it announced two typical, all-expense tours, set tentative prices: ¶ A 25-day tour of Europe with passage on the liner America, six days in England (unless England is still pinched), three...
...room in the Four Leaf saloon on Henry Street (and the Moscow press did not even toss an adjective). Three liquor stores were held up, involving a total theft of $713 and one gold watch (the U.S. State Department did not so much as lift an eyebrow). Mrs. Mary Gordon, returning home from the movies, stabbed her husband with a bolo knife (and East and West still held their uneasy peace...
...makes its sensationalism even more feverish, the plot of So Dark the Night lets young love struggle against middle-aged wealth, throws in a couple of violent murders, winds up in a fanfare of abnormal psychology. It just goes to show that thoughtful direction and handsome camera work can lift a mediocre movie a long way above its humble beginnings...
...Crimson team is composed largely of players new to the intricate Harlow system, but a thorough digestion of all the lore the coach has dispensed, plus the natural emotional lift that visits any Harvard-Yale contest could very conceivably produce a Varsity victory...
...right thing. He was Tradition: Yale, Harvard Law, handsome manners, a law career with a junior partnership at the end of a long, hard row. Tom was the new thing, the break with all tradition, the sloppy dresser, the fountain of glib ideas that would soon lift him from an underpaid Columbia instructorship to Washington and eminence as a New Deal speechwriter...