Word: uplifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...include everything from improved kitchen appliances to navigational aids with pinpoint accuracy. NASA has helped the economy directly. At its peak in 1966, NASA employed or provided jobs through its major industrial contractors for almost half a million people. Less tangible but no less significant has been the spiritual uplift provided by the spectacle of man overcoming the danger and complexities of travel beyond his own world...
...Rutgers show the Band wanted to announce a course, "Women in Social Uplift: a course designed for a bunch of boobs." The Band thought it was a clever pun; the administration decided it was crude...
...were Dorothy Hill and Hazel Gay from Memphis. Said Mrs. Gay: "We were there early to hear Dr. Graham. It nearly broke me up. I could feel victory. Like we all felt victory and a united feeling at the end of World War II. Remember? I felt a spiritual uplift. When they raised that big flag I got goose bumps...
Sogge denied that the program was paternalistic. "We do not go to Africa to help uplift the native people." Sogge said...
Spiritual Uplift. Though he dismisses some of Stampfl's spiritualism as "crap," Doubell totally agrees with his taste in tipples. Both prefer champagne, though Doubell hastily adds: "I only drink champagne when it's available. I don't discriminate. I'll drink anything." Recalling one evening when he "got stoned" on champagne, he says that he went out the next morning "with a hideous hangover and ran the fastest 220 of my life in 22.2. Of course you can't do that all the time. Just about once a fortnight, I reckon...