Word: uplifter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Robust young women in drab auxiliary service uniforms walked arm in arm with young soldiers whose tunics were splashed with large and brilliant enameled medals. In the Park of Culture and Rest, a mélange of uplift, Coney Island and sylvan charm, family groups sat quietly under the lime trees on rest days. At the ballet Mmes. Lepeshinskaya and Cherkasova fluttered back on their points time after time for encores. Reciters read Pushkin's poetry to the crowded halls. The Red Army chorus sang to packed theaters. Factory girls and soldiers held parties and waltzed swiftly...
...terms of British morale alone, the Commandos' value has already been immense. In the terms of damage to Nazi morale and the uplift to civilian morale in occupied countries, it may well have been even greater. They have gathered information about Nazi coastal dispositions which may some day be very helpful to a real invasion. Most important of all, they know the technique of invasion, as no other Allied troops know...
...business, into a new knowledge of production values, and into an acceptance of stagecraft (genuine sets, etc.) -an important advance. He did this by dishing out a series of pretentious pictures which ran an enticing gamut from sex (Male and Female) and high living (Affairs of Anatol) to orgiastic uplift (The Ten Commandments). They earned him the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a gold medal from the bathtub industry (for making cinemagoers bathroom-conscious...
...choirs and for people to sing," Sir Granville's elderly, deaf wife, Lady Helen, wrote new words. Instead of Arise, ye starvelings from your slumbers; Arise, ye criminals of want (Russia's official English translation), Lady Helen's verses began Awake, O sleepers from your dreaming; Uplift, uplift your longing eyes...
Like Sumner, Keller applied Darwinian theories on evolution and natural selection to man-made institutions, constantly inveighed against pampering weaklings either among men or their institutions. Scorning the word "sociology" as smacking of uplift, Keller and Sumner called their subject societology. Greatest Keller precept, which no Keller student ever forgot, was a ruthless respect for facts and contempt for "thobbery" (i.e., wishful thinking...