Word: lighten
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Raconteurs and romancers lighten leisure hours...
These computers would be able to lighten tasks such as comparing large volumes of economic figures or analyzing visual scenes that normal computers find laborious...
Meese had no reason to doubt that Reagan was still with him. "I've never been one that wanted to throw the baby out of the sleigh to the wolves in order to lighten the load," Reagan told a group of newspaper reporters. While he had not examined Meese's finances, "I do know that he had to make some pretty great economic sacrifices to come here and work for the Government." Reagan said that Meese would remain as his Counsellor until he was confirmed as Attorney General. After completing his required preliminary probe, Smith was expected...
...already hard enough to find a place to eat in Lowell House that they can't afford to break chairs at each performance, but even so the actors handled the mishap with ease. A successful ad lib can lighten a play but a bad one can murder it, and there is already plenty of murder in Ira Levin's comic thriller. So the actors stayed cool, and the tightly constructed, well paced production didn't founder...
...comes as a surprise letdown instead of a definitive period. In between, by way of atonement, Cutler has admirably showcased a parade of comedy bits, from the infamous live lamb to Keith Rogal's slimy portrayal of Corporate Evil as the interloping lawyer. Still, no amount of carbonation can lighten this load; Curse would weigh down the blithest spirit with distaste for these starving and unstarving misfits, compassion for their situation, and deep-rooted discomfort at their closeness to a twisted but familiar reality. And that, after all, is the point...