Word: liven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Small groups of Austrian students descended on the dining halls of Kirkland, Eliot, Winthrop, Lowell, and Dunster last evening to liven up the House meals with their native singing and yodeling...
With prospective fortunes to liven interest (a gas-company worker once took a flutter for 10? and won $295,180), crowds at the games dwarf the crowds that turn out for U.S. sport events. When Scotland played (and beat) England two months ago, a throng of 150,000 crammed London's Wembley Stadium to see it done...
...beginning years, Hadden was TIME'S editor, Luce its business manager; later, by agreement, they switched jobs. Editor Hadden liked to liven things up by scoffing in print at advertisers' wares, tartly tell his hard-to-come-by readers in the letters columns: "Let Subscriber Goodkind mend his talk." A brilliant and painstaking editor, he emitted yelps of delight at a writer's bright phrases, and despairing grunts when his plump red pencil (a special batlike one, three-eighths of an inch thick) had to be used to jab life into dull ones. He insisted...
These musicians help liven the waltz party to be held in Agassiz Hall at 8 p.m. tonight. Known as the "Hofbraeuhaus Orchestra" they play waltzes and polkas for similar parties throughout Boston...
...American Airways, known to its friends as Pan-Am, figured to liven things up a bit by holding College Day at the Beach, Friday. Led by Pan-Am's professional joy-boy in Bermuda, one Dick Todd, all the college athletes and visiting ladies toddled off to the beach to engaged in the outdoor equivalent of parlor tricks...