Word: freshen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Marty put his arm around me and said, "You go freshen up in the ladies' room sweetheart and then we'll see where to put you." I went into the lades' room to see what I could do about an instant transformation into sure-fire star material...
...conceived by some of Johnson's ranking advisers in the Administration and the party, his strategy will encompass five major factors. They are to: 1) freshen the face and sharpen the thrust of Great Society proposals; 2) employ Administration officials, with the exception of the Secretaries of State and Defense, as traveling evangelists for the Johnsonian word in the next few months; 3) stress, in the post-convention period, the human factor rather than the statistical and fiscal in defend ing domestic programs, with heavy use of sophisticated television advertising; 4) revive the enervated Democratic Party apparatus, with emphasis...
...uncommitted to either party, to swing from election to election depending on personalities and issues. Among the domestic issues that concern them are education, crime and their interests as consumers. Johnson is virtually certain to sprinkle these with as much new seasoning as possible, as well as to freshen up the antipoverty effort. Johnson, who spent last week close to the soil at his Texas ranch, may also attempt to mollify farmers with proposals to encourage collective bargaining on prices for larger producers, greater financial aid for small operators, and new efforts to bolster farm incomes...
...unpretentious restaurant in Manhattan's theater district, an unpretentious woman tucked a napkin in her dress and wolfed a hamburger lunch. Not that the dress was worth protecting; it was just another tent. After finishing, she wiped the napkin across her mouth. No need to freshen her lipstick; she wore no makeup. Then she strode out in her beat-up pumps-and as if on cue, heads turned, cars slowed, and a sailor rushed up at flank speed. "You're in the movies, aren't you?" he asked. "But I can't remember your name." Said...
...contrast, Monro said he was impressed with the results of the freshmen seminar program. "The longer I live with the freshman seminars, the more I feel they freshen up the college experience for many people," he said...