Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate man who talks about issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from the elections, an ill omen for the troubled country...
...usually made by one of his assistants. "The Scriptures say you got to vow and pay, vow and pay, vow and pay," Brother Don Stewart exhorted the Crouch Temple crowd last week. "You got to promise God, and you got to keep the promise. If you want him to lift your pain, to make you whole, to bring you joy, you got to have faith. Faith. And faith...
Reduced Drag. Wind-tunnel data revealed that when the airflow reached sonic and supersonic velocities along the redesigned upper surface, only a modest shock wave was generated near the trailing edge of the wing. There was negligible turbulence. Although the changes did not affect lift, drag was reduced by as much...
...flight, air is forced to flow more quickly over the curved topside than past the flat undersurface. Air pressure above the wing is thereby reduced, and the wing develops lift...
...Wall Street, merger battles often give a dizzy lift to stock prices long before actual mergers can create any fundamental economic values to underpin them. For example, shares of Scientific Data Systems, a Southern California maker of high-speed computers, leaped 17 points, to 120, in one day last week on news of a tentative merger agreement with Xerox. This sort of thing perturbs some economists, who fear that the speculative fever could end in scandal or stock bust. As far as Congress is concerned, that only provides another reason to clamp down on conglomerates and their fancy financing...