Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington talks any more about "rolling back" Communism in Eastern Europe. Now the hope is to "loosen it up." The U.S. expects the test ban treaty, and whatever cold war relaxation that may follow, to help weaken the satellites' dependence on Moscow and to turn them increasingly toward the West. The Eastern European countries are of course still solidly Communist, and their leaders keep warning that "peaceful coexistence" does not apply to the war with Western ideology. The loudest warnings are from East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, who rules by repressive methods that Khrushchev himself has abandoned...
...Summoning both sides to a wood-paneled conference room of the Economics Ministry. Erhard sat them down face to face, providing two antechambers for both groups to use for their own discussions. Then the doors were shut and plentiful supplies of cigars, beer and schnapps were brought in to loosen up the bargainers. Erhard shuttled from room to room, chiding, encouraging, cajoling each group as the struggle continued to find a common ground. Then in the early morning hours he came up with a solution that just about split the difference between union demands and management's offer...
...Just to Loosen Up. At Camp Lejeune, N.C., the 34 marines designated officially by Commandant David Shoup to uphold the honor of the corps, took the 50 miles in stride. Led by Brigadier General Rathvon McClure Tompkins, 50, who still limps from an old shrapnel wound, all finished within the time limit, carrying 24-lb. combat packs. Tompkins finished ninth. Bachelor Lieut. Donald Bernath trotted in first-in 11 hr. 44 min.-just in time to keep a date with his best girl. At Great Lakes Naval Training Center, a contingent of marines managed to finish 53 miles, took exactly...
...walked toward Harpers Ferry. Come on, beckoned Bobby, let's run a bit ''just to loosen up." By the 35-mile mark, all four aides had dropped out. but Bobby completed the 50 miles alone in a respectable 17 hr. 50 min. And next morning he rose at 7:30, made it to 9 o'clock mass and then went ice skating with his children...
...overwhelming power of the Anglo-Saxons, this gravest concern has been to preserve French liberty of action without trying to go it alone. The long arm of American support has fingers at the end, and it is the grasp of these fingers that de Gaulle wishes to loosen. Yet no one knows better than he how little France would gain from isolation...