Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turned the "beautiful woman" of his childhood into a jewel thief who steals diamonds "not to wear or sell, but to eat, like children crunch candy." The first the audience saw of her was a slim white arm and shoulder, snaking out through a hole in the wall to lift the wallets of passersby. When Ballerina Renée Jeanmaire finally turned up in full view (in sexy black tights) to sing & dance her bit ("I'm a cruncher of diamonds, I can't do without this vitamin . . ."), she brought the house down...
...Hirsch is a veteran horse trainer not given to dreaming. When he sized up the King Ranch two-year-old crop last year, he earmarked three colts-Air Lift, Beau Max and Middleground-for future greatness. Air Lift, the most promising, broke an ankle in his first race and had to be destroyed. Beau Max proved unsound, never trained or raced to expectation. Middleground, despite a suspicious ankle, won four of his five races and topped the Experimental Handicap ratings...
...soldiers captured at Bataan. Color pictures of London under the blitz are reminders that it takes less than an atom bomb to turn a city into a hell. The slowly swelling might, the losses and final victories of the Allies are recorded in pictures that sometimes hurt and sometimes lift the heart...
...East to cover the Korean war, he did spend some time at the front. On one occasion he managed to get a ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under his own rules, however, he had to relinquish it to Osborne, who is 43. Osborne...
Jones pulled back but decided to go in for a second try, hoping to lift the pilot out of his foxhole with a sling. "I was hovering over the pilot with the hoist sling down," Jones reported later, "but he gave me a frantic wave-off, as small arms fire opened up all around us . . . I heard bullets hitting the helicopter and gas fumes began to fill the cockpit ... I think he knew that he was done for and didn't want us to get it too. He just wouldn't take the sling...