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Word: lifts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than any woman who ever appeared on the public scene. No woman has ever so comforted the distressed-or so distressed the comfortable . . . Certainly not the bitterest foe of her political party or of her personal ideologies can deny that since Abraham Lincoln no one has done more to lift the hearts and raise the heads of the Negro people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

University officials last night denied a report that an air-lift was being planned to service the isolated dorm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pennies Spin: Phones Lifted | 5/24/1950 | See Source »

...Lift. Romance, propaganda and the Berlin airlift, crowded into an overambitious but absorbing film; with Montgomery Clift and Paul Douglas (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, May 22, 1950 | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Lift" recounts most obtusely the story of the Berlin airlift. It is a long pull, is my decision, for both audience and airmen. Briefly, this movie offers no surprises, tension, credible characters, credible plot, or creditable photography--only, in fact, a few nervous laughs drawn from the lines of the usually funnier Paul Douglas...

Author: By David P. Lighthill, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...acting is uniformly poor, Clift's contribution is virtually nil, and Douglas', though he gets off a few good ones for such a sleepy guy, is negligible. Altogether, the audience is easily as exultant at the finish of "The Big Lift" as the combined reactions of all the men who played the original performance...

Author: By David P. Lighthill, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

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