Word: spruce
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...probably began with a stroke of lightning on a juniper or spruce tree, or in the oak brush that dotted the parched sandstone slopes of Colorado's Storm King Mountain. For three days the fire behaved itself, apparently stalled on a mere 50 craggy acres near the resort town of Glenwood Springs (pop. 5,800), 60 miles west of Vail. Extinguishing it fast did not seem a high priority; 13 other fires were burning nearby, and more than 100,000 acres blazed elsewhere across the hot, dry U.S. West...
...worried about flat-glass imports, and has asked for a study on how many jobs will be lost and won in his district. Republican Dan Miller is worried about the impact of Mexican produce on vegetable growers in his Florida district who specialize in the "winter tomatoes" that spruce up salads between late fall and early spring. "I've got a major tomato problem," said Miller last week. "I'd like to be for it," he said, but added, "I'm switching to leaning against...
...says he thinks the utensils "spruce up" the rather dark and dull serving area...
Porter was largely self-taught. From the time he found his feet as an artist -- around the mid-1950s -- he stayed away from Manhattan, preferring to paint in Southampton and on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine, which his family owned. This didn't put him out of contact with "the scene." Porter was an exceptionally gifted critic who, in Art News and the Nation, produced some of the most lucid and cant-free essays on modern art in general, and Willem de Kooning's work in particular, ever penned by an American. But he knew his own mind...
...Several objected to the painting -- not for its blunt representation of interracial harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about a very personal subject," according to Lorenz. Brown overruled them all. "It was an important cover for us to do," she said. Pressing her plan to spruce up the magazine's dusty, tweedy image, Brown promises more changes yet. Just wait till readers take in her Eustace Tilley, the magazine's urbane mascot, who will show up soon with a new look...