Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the Ashley machine case, of course, reference to your roommate's leave, or a knowledge of the conclusion of the above episode, will enrich the discussion...
...jettisoning some 90 Ib. of flesh. (His starting weight was 295 Ib., his favorite food, beefsteak.) But asceticism has not reduced Hitchcock's abilities as a humorist, raconteur, deadpan artist and the greatest director of cinema thrillers. At a large stag dinner party, when his turn came to enrich the traditional ambience of brandy & cigars with an off-color story, he murmured diffidently: "I have a story, but I'd best not tell it because it's rather long." The clamor for it was insistent. Then for three-quarters of an hour Hitch held a dozen grown...
Once (in 1934) Investigator Nye investigated munitions makers so belligerently that he convinced many U.S. citizens that all wars are deliberately fomented to enrich the "merchants of death," and incidentally scared U.S. business so far out of munitions-making as to delay U.S. rearmament substantially. All Washington knew that Britain-Baiter Nye would, if he could, turn his Lend-Lease inquiry into an anti-British field...
...Beyond all cities . . . Rome is . . . a monument of the virtues of the world to all posterity, and a trespass against her greatness would justly be regarded as an outrage against all time. . . . Destroying Rome thou wilt lose not the city of another, but thine own. Preserving her . . . thou wilt enrich thyself with the most splendid possession of the earth...
...occasion Governor Jefferies will enrich the school's lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in as many operations in the Civil War. The school is also proud of a streamer (added in 1939) embroidered "Confederate States Army," for The Citadel is the nation's stanchest stronghold of the Grey traditions...