Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Rev. Douglas Cedarleaf, 31, decided to take a hand. First, he preached a sermon, "Vandalism in Throop Street," to his Erie Chapel Presbyterian Church (white) congregation (which included the Strongs). Then he taught them the great Negro anthem, Lift Every Voice and Sing. And then he asked them to escort the Strongs home. Some 135 of the congregation's 175 did. Throop Street heard them coming: they were all singing the anthem. At the Strongs' doorstep they formed a circle. Curious neighbors leaning out of their windows saw the minister give the Strongs a Bible...
...pint-sized medic tries to lift a husky wounded G.I., yells "Gimmee a hand, somebody." The G.I. (played by a one-armed veteran) promptly offers his own "blown off" hand...
...born alloy so magnetic (it can lift 4,000 times its own weight) that FBI plans to use it to fish in rivers and ponds for criminals' discarded weapons and other metallic clues...
...Unlike Mexican-owned houses, Sears is prepared to risk several million dollars on the chance that the new wave of industrialization will lift Mexican buying power to exploitable level...
Louise gave him ambition; he in turn gave her such good companionship that she lost at least the supercharge of her own careerism. Together they got the boys to Andover and Yale and Harvard, come what might; raised so many roses trying to lift a mortgage that they broke the New York market; financed the development of a pioneer monoplane which crashed along with the Stock Exchange; got through the Great Depression with a pleasant bit of comedy about peddling vacuum cleaners; began to recoup tidily in & about the New York World's Fair; and invincibly began discussing their...