Word: perking
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...troops perk up and start speaking more soberly, though, when they discuss the recent breakthrough following that ugly assassination, a breakthrough that has left the local chapter of their Mahdi Army enemy reeling and has local U.S. Army soldiers feeling like they've turned a corner in an pivotal area of south-central Iraq...
...Some curators from the Fogg are coming with some art that I selected last week. I think it would perk the place up a bit,” Faust said on her second day as President, before the art arrived...
...accepting uncertainty. Even with insurance, it's impossible to know when a sudden illness or accident might turn a family's finances inside out. Corporate America has learned its own version of that lesson. When General Motors first offered health-care benefits for its retirees in the 1960s--a perk matched by many other companies across a booming industrial landscape--it couldn't have known that 40 years later, health-care costs would grow three times faster than inflation, that its retirees would one day outnumber current employees by more than 3 to 1 or that the cost of that...
Moving robotlike in a supermarket checkout line, you'd perk up when you noticed that the magazine rack brandished the latest issue of the Weekly World News. Other tabloids would scream at you with the purported indiscretions of celebrities. But on the cover of WWN you'd see a headline so farfetched that it would instantly stick in your mind and be impossible to remove, like the ice pick in Trotsky's skull...
...weight gain" during pregnancy. Payne was overweight when she conceived five months ago and says she lost 10 lbs. after she started taking Masters' classes in June. Fellow nurse Kelly Kuglitsch, 29, of Muskego, Wis., who is eight months pregnant, says belly dancing has made her backaches disappear. Another perk: "It makes me feel sexy," she says. "I go home and show my husband my new moves. He thinks it's really cute." Then again, no smart husband would dare say otherwise...