Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been Prime Minister of Burma (pop. 19 million) for all seven of its years as a free country. Beset by two Communist and several factional rebellions, by the legacy of war's chaos, by the inexperience of his young civil servants, U Nu has striven to lift his country toward new hope of survival (TIME, Aug. 30). Modest and meditative U Nu fought the Communists at home, plumped for Nehru's neutralism abroad, but concentrated on leading an extraordinary Buddhist revival which is now the focus of his country's anti-Communist potential...
...also vaguely said that Russia might lift the Iron Curtain to Western traders and tourists "to facilitate the creation of an atmosphere of trust...
...down the seaboard, painting pictures for his fare. When his fellow townsmen at Annapolis offered to underwrite a trip to study at Benjamin West's London studio, young Peale seized the opportunity. Once there, Peale made no attempt to hide his Revolutionary sympathies, ostentatiously refused to lift his hat when the royal carriage passed. But he worked hard. Back home again after two years in London, Peale quickly made a reputation with wealthy Philadelphians and prosperous Southern planters, including Colonel George Washington of Mount Vernon, whom Peale first painted...
Sounder currencies made it possible to lift restrictions on trade and foreign payments, said Auboin, as he ticked off Europe's progress: reopening the London gold market, lifting controls on the use of transferable sterling for current transactions, giving limited convertibility to the German mark, and unblocking other German balances. As a result, "monetary reserves are now better distributed than ; they used to be." The total gold and dollar holdings outside the U.S. rose $2.2 billion last year, with Italy, Germany and France taking the lion's share...
Rear Admiral Boone rejoined by saying he would lift the ban with a "cheerful naval aye, aye" if directed by a higher authority. But no such authority exerted itself, and the ban remained. West Point informed the public that it would allow no debate on "a controversial subject on which . . . national policy has already been established." It then went ahead to argue the advisability of agricultural subsidies, which the government has approved for over a hundred years. And the Naval Academy maintained that anyone arguing for recognition of Peking was upholding "the Communist Philosophy and party line" at the same...