Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tory Fair scored the game's only goal to lift the Harvard women's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Cornell here at Alumni Field Saturday. Fourteen minutes into the contest, Fair headed in a cross from freshman Sharon Olken on the left side...
Victor Kenneth Braden, 60, has a point to make. "See what you can do when you bend your knees and then lift with your thighs as you hit the ball?" he asks his students. The imagery is vivid, but one woman remains dubious. "My knees don't bend that much," she says. "That's strange," Vic responds impishly. "Didn't I see you sitting in the restaurant last night? How did you get into that position? Did the waiter hit you in the back of the knees...
...reasons that are still unclear, Bush was not told of this for almost an hour. At that point, Washington passed word to the rebel officers that the U.S. "was prepared to lift this burden from their hands." The rebels refused. "They were clearly not of a mind to turn ((Noriega)) over to us," Defense Secretary Richard Cheney said later. "They were not willing to have him extradited to the U.S." Soon after, word arrived in Washington that the coup attempt had collapsed...
...voice is phenomenal, her stage presence at once imposing and inviting. Pfeiffer gives to Suzie Diamond such a joyous, sultry energy that all who listen feel the spirit of the music surround and lift them. They actually believe and wish all those old torch songs to be true. Suzie's version of "Machine' Whoopee" on top of Jack's piano is straight out of Hollywood history and perfectly executed...
...entire landscape is changing in ways that could ease the grief of birth parents and the anguish of adoptees. Experiments like open or cooperative adoption not only appeal to birth mothers grappling with their decision but may also lift the burdens of mystery and shame endured by the adopted child. Many developments are market driven, as agencies, lawyers, "consultants" and counselors compete to open fresh avenues to adoption or make the old ones less forbidding...