Word: brightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held the distinction of being the world's dullest-a distinction in which Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, one Communist who believes that party pills go down best with a little sugar, takes scant pleasure. No sooner had he taken over in the Kremlin than Khrushchev began trying to brighten up Soviet journalism: dull writing, he warned a conference of editors six years ago, "must be driven from the newspaper page." To do the driving, Khrushchev employed an able newsman: apple-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, now 35, who also happens...
...reason to complain. In fact, they tend to sympathize with the worry of many of the pilots-that some physical defect might be uncovered at one of their periodic examinations, bar them from flying. But if and when that happens, some of them will have some moonlight to brighten...
...Halaby, who has returned to the wars with a vengance, and Larry Repsher, the Crimson's main breakaway threat, also brighten the offensive picture. Repsher will probably start today if the Crimson receives...
Such activity did its part to brighten the unemployment picture. The Labor Department removed 14 more major industrial centers from its list of areas of heavy unemployment, reported employment gains in nearly all of the 149 key centers that it surveys. The change brings the number of areas with "substantial" joblessness down to 46, compared with 89 at the worst of the recession...
...lights should also brighten Japan's knowledge of Western art. Though the collection is not all first caliber, there are some great works, especially of sculpture (see color pages). Valued at $5,000,000, it was put together in the early part of the century by a Japanese shipbuilder named Kojiro Matsukata, who bought largely by lot, and reportedly paid between $15 million and $20 million all told. Because the Japanese government imposed a 100% duty on art works, Matsukata kept the bulk of his collection in Paris and London. The London half was bombed out in World...