Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor Rock was probably intended as a tragic figure; he fails of tragic stature partly because Thomas has made him often willfully nasty, less superhuman than inhuman. The scenes with his pretty young paragon of a wife, which were probably supposed to loosen him up, are a total loss, as the young lady has no qualities except loyalty, humility, and a talent for making her husband talk in passionate puerilities...
...chilly and dark out on the freshman track as the runners finished up their workout. Coach Bill McCurdy put his hands in his pockets and walked here and there to keep warm while Ed Martin went through some prancing exercises and Jed Fitzgerald ran fast laps to loosen up his shoulders. Cross-country is over and winter track has begun...
With the college football season a third complete, national and regional pictures began shaking down: ¶ The game of the week was at South Bend, Ind., where Army used its famed "lonesome end" chiefly as a decoy to loosen Notre Dame defenses, sent Halfbacks Bob Anderson and Pete Dawkins slashing downfield in a 14-2 victory that established the Cadets as the class of the country...
...most capitals Chou's message and the U.S. response evoked sighs of relief. But one stern voice continued to remind the world that if Peking had indeed decided to loosen the screws for the time being, it would surely tighten them again one day. Asked what he thought Red intentions in the Formosa Strait really were, Chiang Kai-shek replied: "Their ultimate intention is to seize Taiwan...
...well above calendar 1958's estimated 4,600,000. But even optimistic Tex Colbert felt that buyers are not yet as enthusiastic as the industry would like. Said he: "People still show some tendency to wait for further signs of recovery before taking on new obligations." To loosen consumer purse strings, Chrysler spent $150 million to face-lift its cars, installed a swivel front seat in many models to make it easier...