Word: heightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sorting godowns a Yankee traveler in 1922 complained: "Some of these tea-sorters are as much addicted to maternity as the cigarette-makers of Seville, and not a few carry young bead-eyed Mongolians slung in wide black bands over one hip. These pigtailed little toddlers do not always heighten one's relish for the finished tea, as the big piles of leaves ready for sorting and perfuming are oftentimes their playgrounds, and through and over them they tumble and waddle with infantile disregard for consequences...
Meanwhile, the U.S.S.R. had come back into the game with a note to the U.S.: all occupation forces must be withdrawn from Trieste. Purpose of the Russian note was to heighten the U.S. embarrassment, and it achieved that aim. The embarrassment would continue until the U.S. exerted enough pressure on Yugoslavia and Italy to make them agree to a settlement of the Trieste question...
Broadcasting from Los Angeles, Groucho has a naturally fertile field for zany contestants. But, not content to take just what turns up in studio audiences, his scouts are out beating the bushes for people with strange jobs and enough gabbiness to heighten Marx's verbal asides. He is often topped, as he was when he asked an elderly woman what people were wearing when she was a baby. Her answer: "Diapers." And he was almost speechless for once when a burlesque-show employee identified a stripteaser as "an anatomy award winner...
Crimson coach John Chase and the coaches of BU, BU, Northeastern and Brown favor the projected Eastern League. Chase said yesterday that "the present New England League is unbalanced and the Pentagonal League is too small. An additional larger league would certainly heighten local hockey interest...
Good melodrama, like good farce, has its nonrealistic rules; it lowers actuality to heighten effect. The Man violates the rules. Once criminality is portrayed as a kind of malignant disease, it is hardly better than cancer as a theme for entertainment...