Word: freer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within the strict limits he sets himself, Wyeth's carefully wrought tempera paintings almost invariably succeed in being both clear and convincing. Strangely enough, his watercolors, which he dashes off in a hurry, do too. In them his love of nature (preferably bleak) has much freer rein, and in them he proves himself a delicate and sensitive draftsman, not merely a careful...
...This action leaves security of tenure in a precarious position and seriously reduces the measure of faculty autonomy and control which had become traditional at California and in freer American universities...
Another change gives each team five timeouts per half, instead of four. This amendment is in line with recent football trends toward freer substitutions and specialization. The new rule will enable a team to send in a punter, for example, for one play, without incurring a penalty for delaying the game...
Many an English middle-class family, caught in the business end of the economic nutcracker, has been dreaming of a freer, easier life in South Africa. Novelist Lessing, who was reared there, has bad news about their dreamland. Her story describes the spiritual defeat of a misfit couple in their war with the harsh realities of the veld. Few writers have succeeded so well in getting its thorny unkindness and its head-splitting heat down on paper, and few have written more devastatingly about the dream of living an easy European life against the harsh African grain...
...from all over the world, boiled them down for Marshall, and set up the Chief of Staff's daily briefing session at 6:40 a.m. Within State, Humelsine had earned a reputation for mowing trivia and red tape out of Dean Acheson's path, leaving the Secretary freer than any of his predecessors to concentrate on the big issues. Like Peurifoy, hard-working Carl Humelsine had never taken time to be measured for striped pants...