Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blown off ... men with arms and legs shot away. There was no hope of getting through. But they kept on, wave after wave of them, and they marched in singing. . . . Under the barrage you could feel the beat of [their singing] . . . then [when] the noise of the firing would lift for brief seconds you'd hear their voices rolling out. I don't think I have ever felt such pride in fellow...
...thing was certain: no important military operation can be launched from India against Japanese-occupied territory until the monsoons lift next October or November. Philippine "independence" was being announced for approximately the same season. There was plenty of time for the connection to sink...
...believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions. . . ." He prays: "O God, great and omnipotent judge of the living and the dead, before whom we all are to appear after this short life to render an account of our works, lift our hearts, we pray Thee." Then he murmurs "I am the resurrection and the life," etc., followed by the plea for mercy...
...ancestors into account is his sharp warning against vague postwar plans. Far from using Walter Lippmann's language, he nevertheless repeats Lippmann's arguments against unlimited international commitments that are not backed up by the power to make them effective. "We are in no position to lift the standard of living in China, in Russia, among 400,000,000 impoverished people on the overpopulated peninsula of Europe. . . . The whole conception of ... infusing the Four Freedoms is ... sheer political buncombe. . . . We should put a limit on our total postwar aid, both in time and in dollars . . . postwar aid should...
...there was a time when the tricycle landing-geared 6-243 could not be used from X-Mile Field because the nose wheel would sink down in the loose dirt. At the lower end of the field is a graveyard of cracked-up and salvaged planes. When the bombers lift their wings over this they are quickly out over the open...