Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group in the U.S. this week the wartime dimout on the East Coast is a pleasant necessity. They are the seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...
Most amateur astronomers seem a little queer to the millions of people who seldom lift up their eyes from the grimy streets of the minor planet they live on. Nor can most amateurs explain why stargazing fascinates them. But Ferdinand Hartmann, an amateur who shares his findings on variable stars with the Harvard Observatory, has an answer: "It's like why does a person become religious...
...weeks the China task force ran off a dozen or more destructive raids, gave the spirit of China a big lift. From secret bases behind the gorges of the Yangtze, bombers thundered down the river and, above Hankow's two big airfields, released their bombs in symbolic, as well as practical, destruction. It was principally from Hankow that Jap planes drove Chungking underground for two bitter years...
...Castillo was not likely to lift his state of siege or change his ways unless the strongest pressures were put upon him. But already pressures were rising. Since his regime has chosen to renounce hemisphere cooperation, Argentina has faced fuel shortages, a mounting cost of living, labor unrest, an alarming budgetary outlook. Argentina's financial well-being today depends largely on the availability of foreign capital, which, with changing world conditions, might quickly flow elsewhere...
...news was equally bad for Russia. Berlin and Moscow communiqués, conflicting in detail, made one fact all too clear: Field Marshal Georg von Keuchler had smashed a Russian effort to drive a deep salient into the Nazi forces around the city, to compel them eventually to lift their siege. Berlin said that the Germans had destroyed the Russians' Second Shock Army; Moscow declared that the army was saved, admitted in effect that its effort to relieve Leningrad and forestall a summer offensive in the north had failed...