Word: spruced
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...people without much musical talent individually can sound so good singing together. By some trick of the lighting or of my imagination, everyone looks as beatifically illuminated as the delighted magi in Renaissance paintings. Through the north-facing windows you can see Christmas lights twinkling on the blue spruce across the street that in the daytime shades the plaque commemorating the young men my village has lost in every war since the Revolution. And although I haven’t gone to the carol sing in years, this is still what I think of whenever I hear Christmas carols...
...They tweak the bios, maybe spruce them up a bit and make them sound better than they are,” England said...
...place your luggage turned up when the airlines made a really big mistake. The working-class seaside city has been known as home to oil wells and refineries, the mothballed Queen Mary ocean liner and, until a few years ago, Howard Hughes' eight-engine flying monster, the Spruce Goose. Hardly anyone meant to fly there...
...hike up Red Creek Road, a nine-mile zigzag up the side of Red Table Mountain in Colorado's White River National Forest, is to experience what yoga classes aspire to visualize. You wind through canopies of blue spruce trees to emerge in soft meadows of swaying wildflowers. A gurgling stream escorts the trail, and silvery sagebrush perfumes...
Fashionistas handed Laura Bush the verdict even before the end of her first 100 days: Honey, you ain't in Austin, Teaxs, anymore. So last month the First Lady hired designer Arnold Scaasi to spruce up her look. The choice is not exactly fashion-forward: Scaasi also dresses mother-in-law Barbara. But he vows to make Laura look "snappier," in vivid colors like turquoise ("tur-kwaz") and "a bright bottle green." (The red that Oscar de la Renta put her in, right, may be a foretaste.) We asked Scaasi and celebrity stylist Phillip Bloch to appraise the First Lady...