Word: liven
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traveling alone, quickly became the belle of the bateau, bouncing around barefooted and in hot pants by day and in clinging dresses at night. She so contrasted with the other passengers that one American matron inquired: "Tell me, dear, did the French Line pay your way on board to liven things...
...Patman's complaints may liven up the banker's-gray image. "Has the Federal Reserve System ever paid for Federal Reserve clubs to have parties at Playboy clubs, complete with appropriately attired bunnies?" Patman demanded, having already received reports on the subject from member banks. Replied Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns: "I didn't know there was that much imagination on the part of any of my colleagues...
SHAKESPEARE, and Abe Burrows don't have a hell of a lot in common: even Veriety admits that. But Shakespeare, like Burrows, occasionally worked as a play doctor, called in to liven up a closing act that didn't work, to throw in a few good lines here and there. Somebody, nobody knows quite who, once called him in to patch up a dreadful little play about an exiled Greek prince, and the result is now known as The Tragedy of Pericles, Prince of Tyre...
...many. Mrs. Doris Dennis, a San Clemente housewife, last year waited for two hours at Nixon's helicopter pad in hopes of taking his picture, and was doubly rewarded when he shook her hand. "After that, I wrote Mr. and Mrs. Nixon, and I told them that they liven up the town," Mrs. Dennis says. "Then they sent us an official picture. They're hard to get, you know...
With a starting wage of three rubles a month ($3.33), the recruit usually spends most of it at his unit's bufet on candies and cookies to liven up his nourishing but dull diet. Breakfast usually consists of kasha (cereal porridge), bread and tea. Lunch, the main meal, may include herring, onions, a bowl of potato or vegetable soup with a chunk of meat in it, macaroni or beans, and more bread. Supper may be mashed potatoes and perhaps cabbage or cauliflower-and more bread. A Russian soldier consumes an average 1½ lbs. of bread...