Word: loosen
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...activity comes none too soon. A delegation of 15 Democratic Governors pleaded with Mondale to loosen up and try to show the American people what a regular fellow he really is-to "let his hair down," as Maryland Governor Harry Hughes put it. Mondale, hair firmly in place, stiffly replied: "There is no question that a person has to communicate effectively. But this campaign is going to be won on the issues...
...wounded, most of them civilians. That brought the total number of deaths in the Tripoli fighting since January to 400. The Lebanese government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami, which has been unable to extend its authority to Tripoli, also saw its tenuous grip around the city of Beirut loosen somewhat. Ten people were wounded when fighting erupted once more between rival Christian and Druze militias in the hills overlooking the capital...
...called traditionalists, among them durable Party Chief Georges Marchais, 64, who favor close ties to Moscow and oppose party reforms. On the other are the so-called modernists, including Marcel Rigout, 56, one of four Communist ministers in President François Mitterrand's Cabinet, who want to loosen ties with the Kremlin and open the party to greater internal democracy...
Unlike Shamie, Richardson speaks slowly and quietly, sometimes with a cracking voice, and he often lacks Shamie's energy. Nonetheless, campaign aides say he is running a grueling 16-hour-a-day campaign schedule and is trying to loosen up his campaign style...
...bill has drawn fire from a coalition of critics including evangelicals who say it would loosen the commonwealth's sexual mores and property owners who say the measure would infringe on their rights...