Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common eating table. Since most of the warfare took the form of inter-class fights, the Common was transferred to University Hall in 1816, and each class had its own room on the first floor. But this only made things worse, for the restriction turned out to heighten class spirit. Circular holes in the walls soon appeared, and missiles went flying through them. A typical freshman-sophomore fight on a Sunday evening in 1819 was commemorated in the poem, "The Rebelliad...
...Manhattan, the Royal Roost, hoping to heighten bebop's moral and intellectual tone, opened a milk bar for teen-agers in the yellow leather corral. A learned study of bebop by Jazz Columnist Leonard Feather was under way, and a letter had been dispatched to Bernard Shaw to get his opinion on the whole thing...
...People. As to civil rights, the platform recommended prompt legislation "to end [the] infamy" of lynching; and urged abolition of the poll tax. The embarrassing point might be made that the 80th Congress had shown no great eagerness to tackle such civil-rights legislation. But the G.O.P. pledge would heighten the embarrassment of Democrats when they came to write their own plank...
Barrault borrowed heavily from movie technique. Sets faded and others appeared with dreamlike ease and speed. Lights drifted, camera-like, from one scene to the next. Between some scenes, stagehands rearranged props in full view of the audience. To heighten the unreality, Barrault frequently used pantomime with a symbolic abstraction that approached ballet...
These policies, characterized by the rebuilding of Germany, will not only heighten friction between the united States and Russia, and move us further down the road to eventual war; it will also cost us the friendship of the peoples of Europe, who will be given every reason to believe the Soviet charges against us," he said...