Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other odds & ends of news, "that the situation of our army in Flanders was one of 'ever-increasing gravity.' Those three words banished forever the comfortable delusion that we were 'certain to win.' ... I felt as if I were going down very fast in a lift...
...spitting forth glowing streamers of tracer bullets. We put on our steel helmets and take as much cover as possible for showers of shrapnel fall, fragments of steel cutting slap through the slate roof and tearing off hunks of stone from the walls. The house seems to lift off its foundations as a nearby gun opens fire...
From North Carolina's port side burst a flaming earthquake-a roar that shattered its way to the marrow of man, a lurid flame that seemed to lick the water for hundreds of yards and lift itself above the ranging top of the foremast. The deck slid to starboard, oscillated to port, leveled off handily, rode steady again...
...Lift up your heads, gallant Frenchmen. Not all the infamies of Darlan and Laval shall stand between you and the restoraion of your birthright...
...Back lift, 2,000 Ib. 250 times in seven minutes...