Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...badly needed transfusion of modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World War II), the lightweight M-60 machine gun, a lighter and livelier Jeep, the M-60 tank, and enough M-113 armored personnel carriers to give a lift to every footslogging infantryman in the Seventh Army...
...successful past. The plight of the playwright as social reformer is to turn one generation's problem into the next generation's platitude. When Ibsen took syphilis as a topic in 1881, the subject was novel, courageous and scandalous. In the era of antibiotics, it will scarcely lift an eyebrow, let alone carry a play. Other Ibsen shockers also qualify as placid truisms today: that a pastor can be a sanctimonious fraud; that mothers sometimes love their sons not wisely but too well; that in Paris, artists and models sometimes live together unwed. What is far from dated...
...students took two weeks and 700 feet of fixed rope to lift their 800 pounds of food and gear to the first ridge, over a 600-foot 60-degree icy slope. After that task was completed the first snow and wind came, preventing further movement the next day. By the fourth day the storm worsened and the group found its tent ripped badly by the wind. Thereafter they used snow caves on their way--first to 15,500 feet and then 17,000 feet...
...signs are that there is even better to come. Commerce Department economists anticipate that inventory accumulation will increase from a yearly rate of $4 billion in the third quarter to $7 billion in the fourth; such a rise, combined with a fast getaway for the 1962 cars, could lift the G.N.P. rate to $540 billion by Christmas...
Ever since he was old enough to lift a pair of water skis, Spain's Prince Juan Carlos, 23, has been one of Europe's most eligible bachelors. Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), blue-eyed and athletic, he has one added, increasingly rare attraction: a slightly better than outside chance that he will some day sit on a throne. His father is the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan de Borbón, who, Franco has more or less promised, may in due course be allowed to become King of Spain, and young Prince Juan Carlos might presumably some...