Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served more Mountain, whose trails are served by their famous skimobile, offers a variety of trails for most beginning and intermediate skiers. A few miles past North Conway, in the increasingly popular Jackson area, are Balack and thorn Mountains. At Black Mountain there is a 2500-foot Alpine lift, and at Thorn a 4000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows which give access to a great number of trails for the novice and the expert...
...local working on a steel plant at Scunthorpe rebelled. Foulkes hustled right up there "just to have a fatherly chat." Grumbled one of the workers: "We talked for half an hour about democracy. Then Frank ignores it all and orders us out." They went-under threat from Frank to lift their union cards. In the tightly organized industry, that meant probable loss of their jobs...
...deep was the infiltration of cancer cells that Senora R. could not open her mouth, turn her head, or lift her arm from the bedclothes, and she needed morphine several times...
...bulls had other good news. Aircraft shares got a lift when Douglas announced an extra dividend of $1.50, in addition to the regular $1 payment; the stock shot up 6½ points for the week. Douglas sales set a peacetime high of $874 million in 1953, and profits rose to $15.50 a share. Republic Steel reported that 1953 earnings were $56,743,547, second highest on record, equal to $9.25 a share...
...involved philosophical breedings and brisked up with epigrams ("Cavalrymen like women to scream"; "I'm afraid of grocers when they have guns"). But. like most contemporary philosophical novelists, Giono makes no real effort to be clear or intelligible. It is hard to see how he expects to help .lift modern man out of his "cemetery above the ground" by dropping a load of symbolical rubble on his spinning head...