Word: lighten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They joked about father and Freud, about mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life...
...house dining halls is a necessary sacrifice for the furthering of the house drama. A dining hall, however, is basically a place in which to eat. House drama groups should not be allowed to disrupt dining hall life except immediately before and during their performances. Better planning would lighten the load on the already severely taxed "gracious liver". William H. Nickerson...
House athletics, "a fundamental part of the whole system," draws criticism for its lack of organization. The Committee recommends additional coaches, to be paid by the University. According to the report, this step would eliminate confusion, lighten the burden of the Athletic Secretary, and "add certain incentive and spirit to the team effort...
...Venice Junior High School, a $548,213 building for 450 pupils, an uncompromisingly modular steel, concrete and glass campus plan that Architects John Crowell of Sarasota, 43, and Mark Hampton of Tampa, 35, thought would best adjust to the changing demands of function. Colored panels and waffle-grid roof lighten the heavy industrial look...
...stock of 21,639,206 shares outstanding (of the 28 million authorized) when the changes are approved. Each share, both family and publicly held, will carry one vote. More shares will probably be offered later. In addition, the heirs and the Hartford charitable foundation are expected to lighten their holdings in order to diversify their investments or for inheritance tax purposes...