Word: leeway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admittedly not permitting the city much leeway, the will limited Providence to expenditures for bulbs, plants, trees, and shrubs for Roger Williams' Park and money for the building and improvement of greenhouses in the park...
...watch in Ellington's band from now on. With Chu Berry dead in a motor accident some weeks ago and Coleman Hawkins playing with only infrequent imagination, Ben has little competition among his follow exponents of the tenor saxophone, and Duke is giving him ample leeway. On these two records he plays rich, flowing solos in a smooth, generally conjunct melodic line, supported chiefly by a well recorded rhythm section. There are no limits to Ellington's opportunities for solo improvisation in his band. I notice that the Duke has another record out today, and where last week...
Result of this flexible system: it gives the individual businessman leeway to do his best individual work. Said Mr. Willkie: "The enterprise fella can enterprise. You ought to see the way Rootes goes after his job. Most of them are thinking, 'If we can outperform the Government arsenals, we can convert them into private factories after the war and there won't be any nonsense about whether private enterprise will survive or not.' So they're working their shirts off. Of course they also have the motive of patriotism, but the big thing is their natural...
...speedup had its drawbacks. Graduates of the new system were not finished military pilots, actually had to have ten more weeks of training with tactical squadrons. Top-notch graduates were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph -the close-packed stream of trainers, gliding in to land and take on fresh cadets and instructors...
...stretches to include both these extremes. Each course is free to make its own rules on the number of cuts it will allow its students to take, and each section man can more or less freely interpret those rules. This forces the student to experiment and see how much leeway he can take. He is told that he has "unlimited cuts, as long as his marks are kept up,"; but he usually finds that this concession acts as a boomerang, since his marks won't "keep up" if he starts cutting. The led who would cut the most times without...