Word: uplifts
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...will now be unlimited steel for buckles, hooks,, studs; rubber for suspenders (garters); bone for busks (rigid frontal supports). For foundation and trimmings, there will be lace, plush, velvet. Britain's long-suffering women, plump from their starchy wartime diet, hailed the new order in corsets: it would uplift both midriff and morale...
...late '30s a change crept in. The dictator spoke of good dictatorship, "disciplined" democracy, constitutionality, economic reform. The cynical and the critical said that he talked big, did little to uplift Cuba's sugar-sick economy, uproot its age-old graft. But Batista began to curry civilian support. He encouraged opposition, pardoned political prisoners, even legalized the Communist Party. He cultivated culture. He took up smart squash-tennis (though he preferred cock-fighting), got a tailor, elbowed a way into Havana society, polished his pronunciation. He began to think of legitimizing his power...
...either with the company he used to work for or at his temporary duty station. We venture to say that if all the "experts" could be corralled into one room, and that room could be locked and the key lost, the morale of the class would receive a tremendous uplift...
Dour, puritanical President Pedro Ramirez had signed his 7,240th decree since taking office (TIME, June 14) and was still going strong. His Government was efficient as all get-out, but it was channeling Argentine lives into a path of righteousness and cultural uplift as they had never been channeled before...
...Radio programs were cleaned up drastically, obnoxious commercials banned or cut down to 100 words between programs, classical music made compulsory at least once daily, serials, quiz shows, announcements and song lyrics* subjected to strict censorship to cut out slang and uplift the cultural level...