Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Assistant Secretary of State George Allen had heard out the complaints, Acting Secretary of State Herbert Hoover Jr. checked again with Ike at Thomasville. Then the U.S. executed a fast about-face. The U.S., said Hoover, would lift the arms embargo and let the tanks go through-on the theory that the tanks would not endanger the peace of the Middle East. "Utterly beyond our comprehension," Israel's embassy reiterated. The U.S. might fairly conclude of the week's display of off-again-on-again diplomacy that it was also utterly without forethought...
...embarrassment, though, in asking the voters for another favor: the seat in the U.S. Senate made famous by the late Robert A. Taft, and now uneasily occupied by George Bender. Lausche's eye is firmly fixed on the Senate, but if the Lausche luck holds, he may lift his gaze upward this year to a far more important job in Washington, the presidency...
...High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
Threshold of an Era. One of the President's first official acts was to decree an end to the despised press censorship imposed by the interim administration last November. A few days later he asked Congress to lift the state of siege as of Feb. 15, ten days ahead of schedule. As a gesture to show that he expects no violence, Kubitschek plans to send back to other duties the plainclothes detail assigned to guard him. "I rely on this more than any bodyguard." he told a friend, patting a German-made .25-caliber automatic hidden beneath his well...
Varsity coach Cooney Weiland was more than a little worried about Dartmouth's improvement yesterday. "They're relaxed now," he said, "and they'll be tough to beat." Then he remarked that the Green had obviously gotten a lift from its performance against B.C. and it was too bad to have to play them two days later...