Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles. To keep alive in these countries the hope and belief that they can lift up their economies without accepting the Communist alternative...
...basic fact that makes jet VTOLs possible: jet engines can lift much more than their own weight. The X-13, presumably, has a high-thrust power plant whose weight is as low as possible, but it must have many other novelties too. At the moment of takeoff, while it is still moving at negligible speed, its tail surfaces are useless. Some other system, such as secondary gas jets, is presumably provided to keep it under control until it has gained enough speed for the conventional control surfaces to go into operation...
...dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt for cat. But the show's plotless proceedings have little episodic lift, the score is unexciting and the dancing dated, and Eddie Bracken's archy seems understandably forlorn...
...upside down, walking on the ceiling, like flies, with suction cups on their feet or brachiating from handhold to handhold like chimpanzees in a jungle. Subconscious physical habits learned in infancy will not work any more. The space voyagers will have to force their hands down as well as lift them up. If they try to sit, they may merely lift their legs and remain suspended...
...surplus in U.S. crude that could cut domestic prices all down the line. In addition to an estimate from the Bureau of Mines that daily U.S. demand for April will decrease 425,000 bbl., the commission heard testimony from major refiners that oil lifters (shippers in the emergency oil lift) cannot find European takers for some crude, are even canceling orders...