Word: aloft
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...seventh curtain call, Conductor Mitropoulos took the score from its stand and held it aloft as if to give Composer Shostakovich his share of the applause...
...Granted, Poet Donald Hall has some noble lines to his credit; TIME'S Dec. 5 august dispenser of "sweet praise" picked a sour line to hold aloft and admire: "Like most good poets, Hall knows that 'Life is hell, but death is worse.' " There will be a moment of silence while we strike from the list of "most good poets": Shakespeare - "O, amiable lovely death"; Whitman - "Lovely and soothing death"; Shelley - "How wonderful is death...
Britons and Test Pilot Roland Falk may be aloft [Sept. 19], but are no loftier than Boeing's top test pilot, Alvin M. ("Tex") Johnston...
Next, while the voters pressed close to the porch rail to watch, the official ceremoniously counted the blank ballots. Then he picked up the varnished wooden ballot box, held it aloft like a magician doing a trick. "Is it empty?" he asked. "Empty, empty," came the chorused reply. "There is no cheating?" "No cheating," chanted the voters, "no cheating." Sharp at 8 a.m., the official called the name of the first voter, a wizened, crippled man of 95. He limped to the palm-leaf voting booth, spread the ballot over a sandbag, hesitated for several minutes, then carefully punched...
Although Pan American had served liquor since the 19303, domestic lines did not start until Northwest cracked the ice in 1949. Now almost all major U.S. lines serve liquor aloft. On first-class flights, American, United and T.W.A. pour free drinks. Heaviest pourer: Western Air Lines. On 18 of its 90 daily flights along the West Coast it serves free champagne, and stewardesses are instructed to keep the glasses brimming. Western, which plans to add three more champagne flights this month, claims 93% of its passengers accept at least one glass...