Word: brighteners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gorski said he was pleased with the representation of minorities and women on the force. "There's a definite role for women in police services, and with time I expect their role on the force to increase. They're welcome additions and they do brighten up the force," Gorski added...
Hoping to brighten up their gray Christmas, many retailers stepped up their advertising and regretfully turned to pre-Christmas sales. New York's Saks Fifth Avenue department store has been offering creations bearing such labels as Pucci, Dior and Halston marked down by 50% or more. J.C. Penney near Philadelphia and Target Stores in Minneapolis slashed prices of children's toys by 20%. For the first time in its history, Rich's in downtown Atlanta opened on Sunday afternoons; several Macy's stores around New York decided to keep their doors open until...
...people used to sit around and talk about exams. "How do your exams look?" one person would say. "My exams look fine," another would reply. "How do your exams look?" So it was probably a good idea for Dean Rosovsky to pop over to Lowell House last week and brighten things up by announcing that he was about to revolutionize education. "It is time to reestablish a consensus which will last another 20 years," Rosovsky proclaimed. Later that night. President Bok added his two cents. "Any really strong, persuasive statement of the purposes and aims of undergraduate education...
Moyers basically does three types of shows. First, he investigates worthwhile attempts by citizens' groups to brighten the corners where they live. In November he looked at the Oregon movement to discourage economic and population growth in order to protect the state's agreeable style of life. Last fall he reported on the efforts of householders in declining Chicago neighborhoods to prevent runaway banks from cutting off mortgages and home-improvement loans and thus accelerating the downward spiral of their communities. Secondly, Moyers keeps a door constantly open to cinema verite film makers willing to shoot something more...
About a dozen of the young ladies who really make the White House run decided that a snowman was needed to brighten the South Lawn. During their lunch hour they went outdoors and formed an assembly line. The snow would not pack, so they got buckets of water, sloshed it around, and produced a handsome fellow at least six feet tall...