Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...willing to have some contacts which would enable it to garner technical know-how from other countries. It was willing to send and receive persons under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen their existing thought controls so as to permit a freer contact with the free world...
...from last summer's Parley at the Summit. The resumption of Big Four contacts and the easing of tensions, the Secretary reasoned, would somewhat weaken the will of the Western democracies to take the hard decisions needed to maintain a posture of strength; the democracies, moreover, would feel freer to indulge their petty quarrels of long standing. Such a sequence has already followed, amid the looping longings of "The Spirit of Geneva...
...Communist Control Act of 1954 would force Congress to prove the continued need for anti-subversive laws enacted during the last few years. Ideally, Congress should repeal portions of these laws that may have injured the non-Communist more than the true subversive. Yet even the present period of freer speech and fewer book-burnings cannot erase the usual Congressional dislike of making an about-face to repeal its own laws. Regardless of the particular merits or demerits of these and other anti-subversive laws, Congress should review the laws in the light of changing conditions. Already the change...
...TRADE EMBARGO by Japan will soon be relaxed, if Japanese businessmen have their way. Japan's Chamber of Commerce has formally petitioned the government to permit freer export to Communist China of such items as freighters, locomotives, steel, machine tools...
Grover could now return to long distance swimming with a freer style. He had begun after he joined the Navy in 1940 in time to be aboard the battleship U.S.S. West Virginia in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese struck...