Word: brightening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson worked out in the rain yesterday, but for the first time Coach Bruce Munro permitted a few rays of cautious optimism to brighten the gloom. "You've improved a hundred-fold in the last two days." Munro told the highly touted team which until this week had looked disappointing in practice. "Now you're beginning to play soccer...
...permanent investment," he declares, "and can only sell a property with 100% consent of the investing partners." Among his plans for the Empire State: to open a luxury restaurant beneath the highly profitable ($2,000,000 a year) observation deck, plant trees around the base of the building, brighten its cavernous lobbies, and complete the air conditioning of its 1,750,000 sq. ft. of rentable space, which currently has a highly satisfactory 99% occupancy...
...outlook began to brighten when Jack Kennedy threw his personal prestige into the fight. He summoned a newly created foreign aid pressure group, the Citizens Committee for International Development (headed by TWA Board Chairman Warren Lee Pierson), to the White House and used the meeting as a sounding board for a plea to the American people. "I consider this bill to be probably the most vital piece of legislation in the national interest that may be before the Congress this year," said the President. "We cannot live in an isolated world. And I would much rather give our assistance...
...critic's chair is more often remembered for being bright than right, waspish than wise. Playwright Jean Kerr recently recalled that she rankled for ten years over a barbed line in a Kronenberger review of her first play, Jenny Kissed Me: "Leo G. Carroll brightens up Mrs. Kerr's play in much the same way that flowers brighten a sickroom." Then there was the hapless actor who was commended for "playing his role up to the hilt except that he had no sword." Wit can be instant wisdom. Kronenberger's first clever words on a playwright have...
Even when the volunteers can do little to help a patient toward recovery, they can at least brighten the ward for a few hours each week. A dozen cheerful faces and a few movements of the "Pastorale" symphony create practically the only breaks in the monotony of the patients' lives. One of the saddest looking women in the ward managed to smile when a volunteer held her hand and asked her, "How can you be so sick and have such warm hands...