Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even more pronounced for Buick's new models. Last September, ads for the Skylark GS 455 and the Skylark Custom Sports Coupe were headlined: "Introducing automobiles to light your fire." The copy stressed such performance features as "a 455-cubic inch 360-horsepower engine with a high-lift cam and four-barrel carburetor which breathes through real air scoops." By January, ads for the Skylark were headlined "Something to Believe In," and the copy noted such features as hidden windshield wipers and six coats of paint, while stressing "product integrity...
...rocket will have to lift off within a specific five or ten second period known as the "launch window," rise to an altitude of 94 miles, and fall into the eclipse's shadow at a specific point. "Either it goes during that launch window or we pack it up and go home and wait for the next eclipse," said Edmund Reeves, shortly after supervising the hook-up of the 120-pound instrument package with the rocket at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland...
...some as high as $50,000, from people with matters pending before various Government agencies. According to the indictments, Sweig and Voloshen used the power and prestige of McCormack's office to seek reduced sentences for convicted racketeers, to try to persuade the Securities and Exchange Commission to lift the suspension on the trading of Parvin/Dohrmann Co. stock, to influence a tax-evasion case, and to appeal fof special favors for a firearms company. In addition, both men are charged with perjuring themselves before the grand jury by denying that they knew several of the people on whose behalf...
Here, clearly, is Trevor's sardonic back-of-the-hand to the non-Celtic Mrs. Eckdorfs of this world. But he is too Celtic himself to lift more than an edge of the mist that he has spread. What is Trevor's answer? What, for that matter, is his question? His novel remains an entrancing but disturbing sketch of human weaknesses-among them man's, willingness to live with fantasies he can explain only to an old lady at the top of the stairs, who, in turn, can neither hear nor respond. What she offers is merely...
...that the Mexicans weren't admitting "undesirables," but we thought it was someone's humor/paranoia fantasy. We were stunned by the absurdity of it all. Baja California opens its arms to U. S. sailors on leave from San Diego (so much so that they successfully petitioned the Navy to lift Tijuana's recent off-limits status). Sailors, we were sure, were almost always rowdier and ugly-Americanier than longhairs...