Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whatever the Brattle's intention is in scraping up the film, they certainly have not furthered any attempt to loosen film censorship to allow greater expressiveness...
When North Carolina upset Navy last month, Football turned sour at Annapolis. The embarrassed Middies had been trying too hard. To loosen them up, Coach Eddie Erdelatz encouraged a corny gag: every game was dedicated to a nicely rounded, nonexistent damsel named Rosie Ragoni. And for Rosie the Navy won. But against the unbeaten and untied Irish of Notre Dame, the team needed stronger magic. It was provided unwittingly by Navy's athletic director, Captain Slade Cutter. The Middies were getting a little tired of his reminders that every game except the Army game was only a practice scrimmage...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 14--James R. Hoffa, battling a barrage of federal court charges threatening to loosen his tight grip over the Teamsters, was barred today from taking over as the union's president...
There were plenty of signs last week that tight money is beginning to loosen. The Treasury Department's costs for floating its 91-day bills edged down for the second week, stood at an average 3.528%. Furthermore, interest rates on bankers' acceptances, i.e., a form of short-term commercial loans, have dropped in the past month from...
...though he makes a good living by playing one off against the other. He thus becomes a potentially useful middleman. In his old worrisome days, he sought the help of capitalistic Greece and Turkey against Moscow. Now Khrushchev would like to revive this moribund Balkan pact, hoping thereby to loosen the ties of Greece and Turkey to NATO. Greece and Turkey, of course, could be expected to say no, and to reaffirm their loyalty to NATO. But since they are themselves on the outs over Cyprus, and each in its own way a little out of sorts with its Western...