Word: spruce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FAMILY-CAR MARKET will be invaded next year by International Harvester. It will spruce up its Travel-All combination station wagon-delivery truck into a stylish suburbanite station wagon, and will introduce a new Jeep-type, four-cylinder camping wagon...
...local shoe factory. There was never any lack of necessities, though, and in the tranquil years before the First World War, the Chase youngsters had a pleasant, homespun childhood. At Christmas the family went out in the country in George Chase's buckboard and cut their own spruce tree, decorating it with popcorn and cranberries and cheesecloth bags full of oranges. "Our Christmas presents were always things we were going to get anyway," recalls Margaret Smith. "Mother always got my clothes too big so I would grow into them-how well I remember that...
...blessing. "I have studied all the Olympic rules," says he, "and if there are any amateurs in America, they will be ours." One problem still vexes him. U.S. promoters, apparently expecting little from Liechtenstein's skiers, have asked that he bring Miss Liechtenstein to the United States to spruce up the scenery. "Where," asks the noble baron, "do we find a pretty girl here? We are a country of peasants. If I held a beauty contest, the Chief of Government would send me straight to prison...
Stowe (Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak)--26-44, 3 powder, excellent...
...measures should clear up the worst of Britain's road jam by spring, Marples plans next to tackle the state-owned rail system and, by electrifying some routes and dieselizing the rest, show Socialists how Tories can make nationalized enterprise work efficiently. After that he wants to spruce up British shipping, perhaps replacing the 20-year-old Queens in the transatlantic service to restore Britain to its old pre-eminence in the shipping lanes. As for his own traveling plans, Marples is thinking of spending his next holiday as he has spent many another-touring the Continent with...