Word: spruceness
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...Cheering pretty Wellesley girls spruce up my spirits a little bit, including the one who holds a sign which reads, “Kiss me. I’m a senior...
Paranoia over controlling its populace has led Beijing to oppress religious and labor groups. U.S. and U.N. observers have condemned the crackdown on the Falun Gong spiritual movement. China hates criticism but must spruce up its image as it bids for the 2008 Olympics...
...Harvard's outsourcing to the Boston Sports Club appears to have had few direct results other than a new electronic key-card swipe at the MAC's front door and new lights for the basketball courts. Unfortunately, the only other concrete plans for the future are to paint and spruce up the athletic facility...
...twice without success. Having once killed an eagle on the wing with a rifle, I always have a lurking hope that sometime I may be able to repeat the feat. I revenged myself for the miss by knocking a large blue goshawk out of the top of a blasted spruce." An eagle! Potshots at the national bird...
...worst time NOT to manage our forests," says Galen Hamilton. "Management" (according to the loggers, anyway) means intelligent logging, culling out dead and dying trees and always regenerating the forest, a process that can be accomplished within 12 or 15 years. It means, they say, attacking bark beetle and spruce budworm and other diseases. It means prescribed - that is, carefully controlled - burns to clear off choking, potentially hot-burning undergrowth...