Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nevertheless, the Corsi affair leaves several unanswered questions. In January, after all, Dulles called Corsi "the best qualified man in the United States" to lift the administration's refugee program out of the doldrums that have gripped it for its first two years. The American public can only hope that the Secretary's judgment has improved in those three months, for he may soon be called upon to make even more important decisions. The Corsi controversy recalls the Republican campaign in 1952, when President Eisenhower urged the revision of the McCarran-Walter Act. Surely the entire Republican Party...
...Faust sings, "A moi, Satan, à moi!" and throws his book into the fireplace. An electrician switches on a fan, which sends flame-colored paper streamers upward into sight of the audience. The basement maestro makes an abrupt pronouncement: "Up with him!" The stagehands lift the platform and Mephisto into the air. The audience first sees him sitting on the arm of the chair that screens the trapdoor, nonchalantly swinging his foot and cane. Meanwhile, behind the rear study wall. Marguerite (Soprano Nadine Conner) is climbing a narrow set of stairs to a platform, aided by a stagehand...
...lilt gets a lift from the story, a merry little jape that was cribbed from a 1940 movie, a comedy called Too Many Husbands, which in turn was borrowed from a comedy by Somerset Maugham, who had lifted the theme from a gloomy narrative poem by Tennyson, who had got the idea from a sculptor friend who heard the tale told in Suffolk...
Last week, as Siamese energy and money combined to lift the face of Bangkok, telephone poles were uprooted along all of the city's main roads and moved back to make the cluttered highways passable to the expected influx of conference limousines. Eighty thousand flowering shrubs were brought in from the countryside and planted along roads and canals with, as one Siamese paper put it, "express orders to bloom when the visitors arrived." Early in the week Bangkok's fast-cracking Public Works Chief Luang Burakam decided that the main street before the great former royal palace where...
...possible answer to the Army's air requirements. For use in rugged country, the Army needs an aircraft that can land and take off anywhere like a helicopter. But helicopters are notoriously slow, and their flailing rotors waste fuel because they are comparatively inefficient sources of lift. A convertiplane on the general plan of the XV3 mav prove to have the speed and economy of the fixed-wing airplane without sacrificing the special advantages of the rotary wing helicopter...