Word: enlivening
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...Although the leaders have manically driven and flown around the country campaigning, the journalists in pursuit of them on press buses have seemed more dutiful than excited. To enliven the tedium of long journeys with little opportunity for much real journalistic coverage, media on both the Labour and Tory buses played a bingo game. This involved picking slips out of a hat filled with Blair's and Hague's oft-repeated phrases, with scoring based on which of the phrases popped...
...like that, he says, when the woman you love has a breathing tube down her throat and the doctors aren't sure she's going to make it. You tell her she needs to live, for your son and your daughter, for you. You try to inspire her, to enliven her, to do whatever it takes to keep that heart beating...
This week marks the kickoff of the Undergraduate Council presidential elections, which will once again enliven the debate between two entrenched ideological factions. The right, led by presidential candidate Justin A Barkley '02, advocates a council whose sole focus is expanding student services like holiday shuttle buses and Springfest. The left, led by Stephen N. Smith '02, advocates using the "power" of the council to promote noble goals like world peace, worker's rights, and environmental protection, while "bringing people together" through the conservative themes...
...invigorated, fresh off its attempt to claim Gore Hall from Winthrop House in the celebrated "Gore War." Students recorded their pleasure at having tutors in the Houses, known to invite undergraduates into their suites for "sherry parties." The College held a different attitude toward alcohol then, using it to enliven the undergraduate experience: The Houses themselves served beer readily at House parties and Christmas dinners...
...York's Upper West Side. Both men are completely committed to their faith, and equally committed to their respective congregations as a priest and a rabbi. Thinking of themselves as a modern "God Squad, like the new cops who want to shake up the precinct," each tries to enliven their services when the energy level begins to ebb by spicing up their sermons with stand-up comedy. At one point, Jake actually says, "But seriously, folks," to his congregation as he brings in a gospel choir to serenade his temple. But when their old childhood friend Anna Reilly (Jenna Elfman...