Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sensation, I felt buoyant to the point of exaltation. And not necessarily because of the novelty alone. To Stallings, after 38 hours, zero gravity is old hat, yet he still feels exhilarated by it, aptly calls it "like swimming without getting wet." Airman Brett got no such emotional lift, only a solid, 4-g satisfaction from a job well done. It depends...
...shock waves of conscience. It was banned within weeks. Four leading men of letters-André Malraux, Roger Martin du Gard, François Mauriac, Jean-Paul Sartre-buried their political differences to dispatch a "solemn petition" to France's President René Coty asking the government to lift the ban on The Question and "condemn unequivocally the use of torture, which brings shame to the cause that it supposedly serves." Still illegal, sales of The Question have since soared over the 100,000 mark...
...Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind of noble but dull character who is ready to give those in need...
...moment justify a gloomy outlook. I think they justify an optimistic outlook.'' Said Presidential Economic Adviser Gabriel Hauge: "The end of the great pressure of the downward movement will come to an end during the second quarter. It will mill around during the summer and lift in the autumn." The Administration's decision to hold the line on taxes already had the tentative approval of House Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills. But there were plenty of critics, both in and out of Congress, waiting for things to get worse...
...snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial first 36 hours, the Air Force could lift no more than one battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take the Air Force and the Navy together several weeks to move the whole Strategic Army Corps overseas. This was why STRAC's senior officer, Paratroop Major General Robert F. Sink...