Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until a couple of months ago, Ford had reason to hope he would go into the election with the economy a decided plus. By hewing to conservative, grow-slow policies, he had done much to lift the country out of its worst post-World War II recession. The Consumer Price Index has been steadily coming down, from a disastrous 11% in 1974 to a merely awful 9.1% in 1975 to an encouraging 5½% this year. Yet Ford's hopes were frustrated by a lot of discouraging statistics...
...Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered by a Wandering Hot Air Brazier and "a swarm of underslung butterflies providing a trivial lift to the nose section...
Alfred, who teaches English 200a and a section of English 10, said, "I hope all my fingernails fall off if I ever lift a cigarette again. It really is poison...
...came to TIME in 1968 after serving as a speechwriter for L.B.J. and then Veep Hubert Humphrey. Says Janos, a former Houston bureau chief who has also reported on space shots and astronauts' moon walks: "Even a superspectacular like Kong is pale stuff compared with watching a rocket lift off at Cape Kennedy...
...pick up and caress Jessica Lange, 27, the model-turned-actress who plays his inamorata, Dwan. The hands are 6 ft. across and the arms weigh 1,650 Ibs. each. They were designed and built separate from the complete Kong body and suspended from a crane in order to lift Lange 30 or 40 ft. into the air. Again, hydraulics were used to manipulate the huge fingers, and there was great concern that they might lack fine motor skills and accidentally crush Lange. Like all the other Kong paraphernalia, they were not ready until the production was well along...