Word: loosen
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...loosen the tight lips of those who know the gunmen, the New York World-Telegram and the Daily News each offered $5,000 reward. The Hearst American promised to pay $10,000 for "exclusive information." The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association posted a $10,000 reward...
...proceedings with nothing on at all. Gladys Glad, still rated as the most perfect "Zig" ever discovered, was paraded after Miss Bacon, led out by handsome, hard-working Harry Richman, to whom few tired businessmen's wives are indifferent. Richman's duty was to pace the evening and loosen up laugh muscles, stimulate the tune appetite...
...prevent the formation of ice on the wings of airplanes (TIME, April 14, 1930). He affixed rubber "overshoes," impregnated with oil, to the leading edges of the wings, and to struts, tail surfaces, flying wires. By means of a motor-driven pump, the overshoes were made to pulsate-to loosen the ice as quickly as it could form. The ice would be blown away. Last week at Akron, the Goodrich company announced that a Lockheed Vega and a Douglas mail plane equipped with Dr. Geer's overshoes had been flown for the past four months under worst conditions (just...
...says nothing at all about the Bussey Institute, the graduate school of arts and sciences, the glass flowers, the recent gratifying football experience with Yale, and the permanent rustication of a young man who wafted a specimen of citrus fruit at Rudy. If this appeal does not make graduates loosen up, they have no sense of relative values and no dollars for absolute worth. Boston Herald...
...match point in Bell's favor Hunter was throwing up the ball to serve when the Texan, with a faint moan, fell over on his face. Howard Voshell, the referee, carried him to the sidelines, and Hunter's trainer worked for a minute to loosen the cramp which Bell indicated as having stricken his left thigh. The crowd expected him to come out of the club after a rest and go on with the match, but Hunter ended that possibility. Angry, quiet, decisive, he picked up his rackets, threw his white sweater over his shoulders, marched into the locker room...