Word: liven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheerfully social Washington bachelor, Brown may well liven up some of the National Gallery's stuffier formal functions, and possibly even encourage the purchase of more contemporary paintings. But his prime concern, he said last week, was to deepen "our commitment to scholarship" by bringing to the new study center the "great minds in art research from all over the world...
...Hotel bar and staying up late at night talking football with friends. The only trouble was that too often Danny's team lost more games than it won, once for seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas of 1965, some people said that he had become too difficult to work with. Danny could not understand that. As he often said, football was, after all, just "fun and games...
...student who may be unhappy with formal course structures and no dullard, should be allowed to take an Independent Study if he has the ingenuity and initiative to set one up. Similarly, there is no reason to close off the benefits of the program to sophomores; Independent Study might liven up this year, whose sluggishness is legendary. The CEP should also make the signature of the sponsor and perhaps of a senior official in that department enough authorization. There is no point to the present rule which requires that all projects have the signature of the head tutor...
...dodging some of the heaviest flak of the war. The Communists had taken ad vantage of last month's cloud cover to station more of their antiaircraft guns and SAM missiles just north of Hanoi. Air Force Ace Robin Olds noted that "there were also some MIGs to liven things up." Two of them were gunned down by Air Force Lieut. David Waldrop. The sky was so thick with planes that the North Vietnamese joined in the MIG-shoot too; they accidentally shot down one of their planes with a SAM missile...
...they boast of the barons and movie stars who patronize them, in fact the ordinary working-class German accounts for an increasingly large slice of the business. As one Bonn sociologist points out, the workingman uses smoked eel, sturgeon, venison, curried-rice salad, or even chocolate-covered grasshoppers to liven up his traditional light evening meal. "Today," says Alfred Peters of Michelsen's, which claims to be the largest importer of caviar in West Germany, "it's nothing for the lower classes to come in here and purchase caviar [at $50 a pound]. They are the new gourmets...