Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian women. Real full-fashioned silk stockings, said Ottawa newspapers, might be on the store shelves before Christmas. A shipment of silk hose was coming from Brazil. But the stockings would be expensive, could not be sold unless Canada's tough Price Controller Donald Gordon gave permission to lift the price ceiling...
...average Jap soldier (5 ft. 3 in., 117½lbs.), is five inches shorter, some 28 lbs. lighter than the average G.I. Nevertheless he can lift a 150-lb. weight to his back without spreading his legs; a Jap battalion can march more than 20 miles a day; special patrols have been known to cover 60 miles on foot between midnight and the next afternoon...
...Naturally they do not crowd around American troops . . . they do not even give a sign that they are aware the Americans are there. Now and again some aged man will find it impossible to avoid the eye of an American, and frequently he will lift a finger to the peak of his cap in a salute neither servile, nor military, nor insolent. American troops have seen nothing quite like these people...
...talent yardstick showed Toronto stronger than last year. Dave ("Sweeney") Schriner had come out of retirement to score 19 goals and 16 assists in seven games and give the Maple Leafs' first line the lift it needed. Montreal, although it had lost veteran Center Phil Watson and two of its top defensemen, Mike McMahon and Gerry Hefferman disqualified by a new league rule barring players who work in essential war industry, was still close to prewar big-league hockey standards. That was scarcely true of the league's four U.S. teams: Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York-who might...
...feet said in a tight voice, "I'm hit. Can you help me up? Are my legs broken? Help me out of this hole." I reached down and took hold of Stanley Gunn's hand and began trying to lift him gently. A few seconds later when the other correspondents wobbled in with flashlights I realized that there was no hole.. I grabbed a towel and twisted it around his leg for a tourniquet. Gunn was magnificent in spite of the terrible wounds he had suffered. He sat partly up and watched me get the towel adjusted...