Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were several courses of action, the President said. But: "There is only one remedy left-that is to lift controls on meat . . . food and feed products...
Equipped with a great deal of faith and a great scarcity of money and publishing experience, they decided to start a new religious magazine. Its name: Integrity. Its aim: to blast lay Catholics loose from materialism and worldly compromise, help hem lift their daily lives as sacraments...
...journalism somehow must jack itself up above the level of novelty, shock and violence. "Unless we brilliantly improve our skills and techniques," he said, "we face ... a crisis of meaninglessness. Innumerable brief reports, presented without perspective or background, can only drive the reader into a mental fog. . . . We must lift our sights...
...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...
...arranged to have tied to convenient roadside trees the day before. A younger, less durable friend followed on a bicycle, but Matsumoto breezed into Tokyo with enough wind left to tell startled bystanders about his run. He also wheezed a challenge: at a Shirakawa shrine festival he would lift a 70-kan (579-lb.) stone, would give a prize of ten yen (65?) to anyone who could lift more. Sneered Matsumoto: "Youngsters these days are too soft...