Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...returned to office more by the power of the Nacionalista Party machine than by any popular conviction that he could fill his predecessor's unfillable shoes. Independent Manahan, who tried so hard to shrug into the lost leader's mantle that he retouched his campaign photos to heighten his physical resemblance to Magsaysay, finished a respectable third with 20% of the vote. Fourth: Senator Claro Recto. 67, candidate of landlords and anti-American intellectuals...
...debate could easily strain the situation even more. The strong Afro-Asian bloc will, unless France takes steps toward mediation with the nationalists, press for condemnation of French military action in Algeria. Such a step will only serve to heighten tension between the two countries and block hopes of settlement...
Episcopal Cathedral; Negro ministers were not invited, so as not to heighten tensions and deepen divisions, but were kept informed...
...heighten the impact of these revelations, Cozzens feeds the reader key episodes from Arthur Winner's past with flashbacks so deft as to be intravenous. There is Lawyer Arthur Winner Sr., a dispassionate Victorian man of reason, his son's model and hero. An agnostic, he has been cut down in the fullness of life by cancer, and young Arthur learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth...
...primi gondolieri and pretenders to the throne of Barataria, Bruce Macdonald and George Brown both sing remarkably well and elicit a great deal of satire from their acting. Neither of the pair strikes one as of the gondoliering or the regal type, but this only serves to heighten the humor...