Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russian tanks crushed the Hungarian revolution and Janos Kadar took over as the country's ruler, the secret police still make dead-of-night arrests, and land mines along the Austrian frontier still deter potential escapes. But, imitating Nikita Khrushchev's methods, Communist Kadar has begun to loosen the noose around the Hungarian people. While forced collectivization of agriculture continues, luxury and hard goods are more abundant, even though prices are high. Last week Kadar announced a policy of peaceful coexistence between Hungary's Communist rulers and non-Communist majority...
...Morocco to dedicate a new oil refinery at Mohammedia, where the top leadership of the F.L.N. was meeting. Hearing a peculiar noise in one of the French-built jet engines, the mechanics found that a heavy, twisted screwdriver had been taped to the inside. The screwdriver was meant to loosen in flight and be sucked into the jet's moving parts, causing a midair explosion. Mattei canceled his trip...
Some Gains. What has held Red China together so far is the Communist Party kanpus, the army, the single-minded but aging leadership. Should these rivets begin to loosen, the whole structure might well come apart. Is there any hope, then, of imminent disintegration or revolt...
...Consumer spending will rise. Personal income stands at an alltime peak of $416.7 billion, but people have been banking 8% of their earnings-saving instead of spending, out of fear of unemployment. "Fewer layoffs will loosen the pocketbook," says American Motors Vice President Edward Cushman...
Several years later the abolition mistakenly became considered by observers as an explicit move to help create football "sanity"--the sacred term which today describes the strait jacket of the Ivy League which the Policy Committee does not dare to loosen. If the committee decides to reinstate spring football, for example, it will be accused of defeating its own purpose by inspiring football professionalism. Nevertheless, at the time of the abolition, "sanity" was aimed at inordinate recruitment and financial aid problems...