Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ripe Plum. How would the British take a U.S. policy change? The British Foreign Office again warned that it would take "all practical steps" to block Iranian oil sales. But under pressure from the U.S., the British might lift the embargo...
...shape. Since the wing is broad from front to back, it can be fairly thick (and therefore strong), but still be "thin" in the aerodynamic sense.* Such wings are fast and have minimum trouble when passing through the speed of sound. They have large area and therefore plenty of lift, and there may be more room inside them for the multiplying gadgets that modern airplanes must carry...
...Britain would lift its ban on exports to Iran, and unfreeze Iranian sterling holdings in the Commonwealth...
...that mean that OPS was getting ready to lift the lid all along the line? As his first move in OPS, Woods said he was going to make a big tour around the country to see if housewives really want price controls. Cynics guessed that the actual purpose of his tour was to sell the Administration's line blaming the Republicans for inflation, on the ground that they watered down the controls law. But Woods's predecessor would have none of that line. Without mincing words, retiring Price Boss Arnall had labeled the Administration's handout...
Nobody knows how isoniazid affects the central nervous system to produce the lift. But Dr. Krieser and his colleagues want to make sure that isoniazid is, as they now believe, better than shock treatment...