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"To go to war, we canceled training, slowed down equipment maintenance - just the kind of thing you want to be goosing up" in wartime.

The Camaro straightened as if it were on guy wires and continued down the expressway, its speed goosed up to 140.

So it gets goosed up.

Goosed Up Rhymes ($1) six funny, noisy versions of nursery rhymes guaranteed to make you smile.

Organized according to season, a spring salad of English peas and morels gets goosed up with watercress and aged sherry vinegar.

Tiger, if you can't accelerate the pace of golf itself, you can ordain the required goosing up of the telecasts.

"If you think that marketing is just making eye-catching commercials and occasionally goosing up volume with rebates and promotions, you're fried.

These retro ideas are goosed up with flashy digital animations that serve mainly to dramatize the yawning gulf between computer renderings and realized buildings.

"A topic that in some sense is always around has to be goosed up a bit to make it exciting," she wrote, "and hyperbole is one means toward that end."

Jerry goosed up the feedback a bit while she still cradled the new arm, and he imagined a flesh-and-blood person holding his arm, instead of the cold titanium and carbon fibers.

The party for "The Upper Class" at the Box was an example of how that preppy ethos has been goosed up not only for prime time, but for after-hours, too.

That first experience behind the camera was a whirl of activity, holding together the fleeting finance, goosing up her actors with enthusiasm and keeping the story in front of the camera on track.

But Kraft says it is unimpressed, with sources claiming this weekend that Cadbury "goosed up their revenues" with a large amount of promotional activity, particularly in North America, to shift more product.

If decisionmakers treat this project as no more than a local exercise in economic development, goosed up by fatuous public relations, they will be weighed in the scales and found wanting, for as long as history sustains a regard for truth.

"Strange Justice," the new Showtime movie recreating the Thomas-Hill imbroglio that premiered in Hollywood last night (based on the book by my friends Jane Mayer and Jill Abramson, a Times editor) has goosed up the story.

Oversize utility jackets, feather-dusted hems and Japanese pop prints were a reprise of his July couture show, now goosed up with clingy microminis and cotton jackets that spread open over the rear, as if in a losing battle with the bulge.

“What Art Basel Miami Beach did in Miami Beach was transformational,” Mr. Balazs added, referring to the art fair that in 10 years altered the international art calendar and goosed up the economy during the traditional pre-Christmas lull in that beachfront tourist town.

I goosed it up to as much altitude as I dared, leveled it off and we went out one two three.

They played it like that in their shanties and in their juke joints and nobody paid it no mind 'til I goosed it up.

You had some spec and fund buying goosing it up and looking for (automatic 'buy' order) stops near possibly 13.40 cents (basis March),' a financial house floor dealer said.

It might be titled "Andy Hardy Elects a President," and it features its own zany argot -he is always "giving people a jingle" and "scooting right over" and "getting snookered" and "goosing it up" and "getting down to brass tacks."