Word: loosen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tomorrow's election may give the Council minority the chance they have been awaiting for nearly two years--to loosen the ground under the City Manager's feet. If they succeed, Cambridge may soon see a replay of the bitter days of January...
...There's progress," he said afterwards, 'my knees will be stiff tonight, but at least I'll be able to loosen them up by exercising--and that's an improvement over a couple of weeks...
...eventually drifts into madness rather than give up her fierce search: "If nobody gives me what I want, I'll steal it. I want somethin'-I'm goin' to get it." Only in the last 50 or 60 pages of the book does the author loosen the string of tension that she has drawn, and the story turns unnecessarily melodramatic. In the end, what promises to be one of the most acridly realistic novels since Dreiser never quite takes the prize...
...servants quit the mansion in fear of something they never name. Only the butler is left to serve the shambles of a meal. Midnight comes and goes, but no guest makes a move to leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink into apathy. An old man dies; a young couple...
...Houari Boumediene, who must give ultimate approval if Tshombe is to be extradited, but there were other factors that may have caused him to delay his decision. In exchange for Tshombe, Boumediene hopes to get Mobutu's support for Arab policies in the U.N. and perhaps also to loosen the Congo's close ties with Israel. His intelligence men may also want to get as much information as they can out of Tshombe, including the details of Lumumba's death, which some say Mobutu also had a hand...