Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard them lift the chorus that drowned the breakers' song...
...lift my lamp beside the golden door...
Peru's most important figure-more important than President Dr. Manuel Prado-is Raúl Haya de la Torre, fugitive head of the outlawed Aprista Party. President Prado, says Gunther, would probably like to lift the ban against the Apristas, but if he did, they would sweep him out of office at the next election. So he doesn...
...bigger design. Biggest of all virtues is that the flying wing, shedding her tail, has some 40% less wind resistance than a normal design. Her pilot and engine are buried in her thick wing. Except for her propeller-shaft housings, every square inch of her body goes into lift. Thanks to this economy, the Northrop's design can get the same speed with half the horsepower of conventional planes, or with the same horsepower can turn out 25-30% more speed. It is also lighter, less complicated than ordinary planes...
...rest would have been "routine." The long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...