Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greater leeway for Freshman sociability has been offered by Dean Leighton in the form of a liberalization of guest privileges in the Yard dorms after the game tomorrow, and for the evening meal at the Union Dining Hall...
Wages. Most industries and most companies have adequate leeway within which to grant substantial wage increases. These increases will have a direct effect in increasing consumer demand to the high levels needed. Substantial wage increases are good business for the country because capacity production means an active citizenry enjoying the benefits of democracy under our free enterprise system...
Beecham is certainly the recognized authority in Mozart; only Bruno Walter is ever compared to him today. Koussevitzky's divergences from Beecham are emphatic; while Mozart's scores are not perfectly annotated and allow much leeway, he appears on several occasions to have violated the composer's instructions. Get the scores, compare recordings, and notice Koussevitizky's distortion of dynamic balance, listen carefully to his general phraseology...
...newspaper hit the streets with the phony flash. But radio had destroyed the few minutes' leeway that wire associations once had to retrieve their errors. So long as scoop-happy radio stations shot from the hip, wire services had to be triply careful what crossed their wires...
...must not be stampeded by such dislocations into elaborate controls or special dispensations. Our economy is a jigsaw pattern of interlocking buyers and sellers, producers and consumers. The pieces of the jigsaw will move into place best if we give people scope and leeway...