Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plentifully, playing a big role in the war (e.g., in a four-motored bomber it saves enough in engine weight alone, as compared with aluminum, to increase the bombload-by 360 lb.). Among its many postwar possibilities, Haynes sees a magnesium grand piano that one husky man can lift by himself...
Richard Wagner was finally readmitted to the repertory of the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra by the City Council, which decided to lift its four-year...
...frankly corny plot concerns a likable but sloppy guy who lies down on his defense job, is siren-songed by Axis agents, collared by Uncle Sam, and finally brought to his senses by hard-bitten visions of 1776, 1865, 1943. This fable gets a lift from such catchy tunes as It's Only the Beginning, Let's Be Americans All, Swing-Shift Sam and Swing-Shift Susie...
Enrico Caruso remained a highly informal character. Once when Lillian Nordica was about to lift her voice in a love duet with him, he deposited a hot potato in her hand. In Tosca, when Antonio Scotti stooped to pick up the paint brush beneath Cavaradossi's easel, he had to yank at it for minutes-Caruso had nailed it to the floor. Caruso's most celebrated peccadillo led to his arrest on the complaint of a Mrs. Hannah Graham who had run into him at the Central Park Zoo and testified breathlessly: "He insulted me. He brushed against...
Karl Horak lingered longer than usual over his glass of wine in a Prague café, and because he tarried, missed the bus that would have dropped him at his home town. No matter; he could walk; it was not far. He got a lift part way, then took a short cut through the woods...