Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppliants. We are ready for honorable peace. But if the Communists want war, we must be ready for that, too." The three powers had agreed, said Dulles, "that we shall try our best to bring about Korean unity by peaceful means, [and] that a Korean armistice would not automatically lift our embargo on strategic goods to Red China or lead to the acceptance of Communist China in the United Nations...
...Billion Man-Hours. Farm mechanization got a big lift from World War II's huge food demand, and the skyrocketing cost of farm labor-up 300% since 1939 v. a 100% rise in the cost of machinery. It has amply paid off. Items...
...Which gets its quick-lifting power from the U-shaped bands which function on the principle of the Venturi tube, i.e., the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower the pressure drops within the tube. On the plane, the lowered pressure causes a suction, even at low speeds, within the channel's, maintaining the flow of air and preserving lift under conditions that would stall an ordinary plane...
...newspapers tried to keep up the pretense. They wrote as if the Big Three conference in Washington was really called just to force the British imperialists to lift their oil blockade; it was learned from "travelers approached unofficially in Europe" that the U.S. would soon have new proposals for the nation to spurn. Premier Mossadegh, alas, knew better, and as a result was laid up for a "threeday rest." He had got Eisenhower's firm rejection of his plea for "effective economic assistance" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Cried one of his aides: "If Churchill himself had written it, he would...
...help from the song department. The songs, most of them by Howard Dietz and Arthur Schwartz, are slickly routed down the memory lane of the just-gone-forty crowd. There is Something to Remember You By, Louisiana Hayride, Dancing in the Dark, the last being a lift from the original Band Wagon, a Broadway musical that starred Astaire and his sister Adele in 1931. In other respects the new musical has nothing to do with the old. Its casual plot describes the attempt of an oldtime Hollywood hoofer to get a foot back on Broadway as the partner...