Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ingenious arrangement of nets in the Cage-around the inside of the circling cinder track and down the middle with a protective T at the west end-permits three channels of activity. Pitching hopefuls loosen their arms in the shelter of the west side cross-netting, leaving the two major divisions of the building open for simultaneous batting practices...
...special representative and the district commander to introduce him. After the lighting of cigars and swearing to the Legion's pledge of "100% Americanism," debate began. The national command had one defense ("Veterans are a selected group") and one tacit assumption: any change in the Veterans Administration would loosen the Legion's traditional grip on VA matters. Merson's forces argued only that the Hoover proposals would be more efficient. Cried Merson: "Shall we be rubber stamps of the Legion hierarchy-or shall we be free men, following each the dictates of his own conscience...
When Harvard had its biggest lead of the game, 38 to 31, John Stevenson fouled out. Ambrose Redmond went in for him at forward. Concurrently, Tufts began to drive much harder. The Crimson man-to-man defense began to loosen...
Automobile dealers whose sales had been crimped by credit controls last week discovered a way to loosen the clamp. Under the six-year-old G.I. bill they found that veterans who use cars in their business can buy them with Government-guaranteed loans, with up to two years to repay. Dealers who hadn't known or cared about the law before began offering "eligible veterans" new cars for as little as $257 down and $45 a month, about two-thirds the payments required under credit-controlling Regulation...
Rule No. 1 for a football official, says Swaffield, "is to make an immediate decision and never take any back talk. You have to act with confidence and calmness. The official who bellows at the boys just makes them antagonistic." Swaffield prefers to kid the players along, make them loosen up and remember that football is just a game, not total warfare...