Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days the delegates, the visitors, the bored newsmen, the wise guys, smoking too many cigarets, drinking too many drinks, gulping too many lunches, had waited for the man who, they hoped, would give the convention a much-needed lift; who would, somehow, make the heat and sweat and boredom seem worth while...
...Though the pilot pulls hard on his stick, the plane has little lift, comes out of a dive very slowly...
...girls, climb ladders, turn cartwheels, there really seems no reason why life itself should not be lived on skates. Yet it is the actual skatin -the grace of Carol Lynne, the teamwork of the Caley Sisters, the precision of the ice ballet-that gives Hats Off most of its lift; the big, exotic production numbers are pretty enough, but they induce more Persian or Hawaiian languor than they mean...
...clock they were hungrier than they had ever been before. They went out through the white picket fence and stood watching the quiet highway. A few cars went by, but no one stopped when they, waved. When the phone rang, Peter stood on tiptoe and managed to lift the receiver. But he could not quite speak into the mouthpiece and he finally let the receiver fall back on the hook...
...died. On Feb. 24, 1821, Severn wrote in his diary, which is included in Against Oblivion: "He is gone. He died with the most perfect ease. He seemed to go to sleep. On the 23rd, Friday, at half-past four, the approach of death came on. 'Severn- I - lift me up for I am dying. I shall die easy. Don't be frightened! Thank God it has come...