Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parity freeze-which Ike brusquely vetoed. Then 1958's farm prosperity (TIME, May 12) began splitting the congressional farm bloc: the House refused even to consider a wild, catchall Democratic farm bill, and the Senate passed a strong bill which would 1) significantly lower price supports, and 2) loosen acreage controls for corn, cotton, rice and grains. Benson pronounced himself satisfied with the Senate bill-and fought to keep the House from diluting it. Speaker Sam Rayburn got mad at Benson's persistence, refused to force the farm bill to the floor. Unless Rayburn changes his mind...
...relax the ironclad restrictions of the 1951 Battle Act, which ties the President's hands on aid to Communist countries. Sponsored by Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the amendment authorized the President to extend economic aid to captive Communist countries if he believed that it would help loosen the bonds of "Sino-Soviet domination." It was practically an Administrative proposal: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly endorsed...
...that "I'm tired out packing up and marching and doubling and carrying arms and falling in and keeping guard and fighting. I want a little rest." Xenophon describes a rough-and-ready means of getting stubborn prisoners to talk: kill one in front of the other to loosen the survivor's tongue...
...call success in life." Hard-driving businessmen seeking release from stress clench their teeth, jut their jaws, grind their molars-both on the job and in their sleep. In cases of irregular bite, this leads to pyorrhea, which causes the bone around the tooth to dissolve. Result: the teeth loosen and may fall...
...discount-rate reductions. But last week they grumbled that the cut was not big enough. Said President George Champion of the Chase Manhattan Bank, second biggest in the U.S.: "This is only a token adjustment and not as much as will be needed. The time is ripe to loosen up much more on reserve requirements...