Word: lifts
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Apart from the jocular jottings of Columnist Russell Baker, the New York Times is not noted for its humor. Some delightful deadpan gave a lift to its front page last week, however, when Music Critic Harold Schonberg was, as it were, thrown to the wolves...
...ethic of upward mobility. When a nun who did social work on the West Side visited Daley to tell him of the poverty she had seen, Daley, in a long-winded reply, pointed out to the nun that their "grandparents can?? here with nothing," The blacks, he said, "should lift themselves up by their bootstraps like our grandparents did," Daley eventually went to the West Side, Royko tells us, in a helicopter during the riots, "to see what people do when they have no boots...
Proxmire will be at center stage this week when the Senate votes on whether to go along with the House in killing the aircraft. It voted no last year, and the latest House vote is a psychological lift for the plane's opponents, but there are new faces in the Senate too, and new pressures. So the fate of the SST is still in doubt. If the Senate votes to continue funds, some kind of compromise-now wholly unpredictable-would have to be worked out with the House. If the Senate continues its opposition, the Government would seem...
...exile has served to justify its tight, autocratic rule of the island. The 2,000,000 mainlanders enjoy a number of political and economic perquisites, but the 12 million native Taiwanese have only token representation in the Taipei government. The change in U.S. policy thus may give a lift to the weak and diffuse Taiwan independence movement...
Last month the Federal Housing Administration gave the market a lift by cutting the ceiling on its home loans from 7½% to 7%. Said Irving Rose, president of Detroit's Advance Mortgage Corp.: "It was the buying signal that everybody had been awaiting...