Word: loosen
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...first act her voice is tense, her gestures mannerd. The well-born Irishwoman who left "God and country" for a tavern-keeper might have some residual hauteur, but she certainly wouldn't be cold. Only in her death scene at the end of the play does she loosen up, and become passionate enough to assert her role...
Enthusiasm ran high among the 143 starters. Some arrived early to see the and of the Freshman intramural meet, and to loosen up. Others, less familiar with the ways of the long distance runner, shivered in the 42-degree cold...
...afraid of learning to read, because they don't know they're doing it." The technique also breaks down inhibitions. "It's like a rusty lock," explains Levine. "Put a key into it, and it won't work. Keep trying, and it will loosen up and begin to function." He is convinced that music is a key to learning to read. Since all the grades in his school began using the technique, the percentage of retarded readers there has been halved. In a nine-month trial, one class that employed the music jumped four months ahead...
...adding enough to the money supply to keep up with loan demand. The board in the past two weeks has injected $1 billion to ease the situation. But the Administration, which is committed to an easy-money course for the economy, is urging the Federal Reserve to loosen up still further and private bankers to hold down interest rates...
...fans in Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium wondered whether baseball's top pitcher (record: 21-7) still had his stuff. His first pitch hit the dirt three feet in front of home plate, and for two full innings he threw nothing but curve balls-struggling to loosen the cramped muscles of his arthritic pitching arm. Finally, he tried a tentative fast ball, then a second and a third-and the crowd began to buzz as one after another the Cubs marched up to the plate, took their cuts, and marched straight back to the dugout...