Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...watch its step. Speaking to the Executives' Club of Chicago, Henry C. Alexander, chairman of J. P. Morgan & Co., warned: "Historically, a capital-investment boom such as we are having now has been the culminating phase of the economic cycle. If we keep on accelerating present pressures and loosen our restraints, we will get into maladjustments of production and consumption and excesses of debt-into a spiraling orgy-with the inevitable aftermath of collapse. Yes, the time is here to spend less and save more...
This was independence with a vengeance. The Kremlin's new leaders might be willing to bend with the times, to grant the satellites some easements in order to make their own control more secure. But now the Poles were asking them to loosen their tight hold on Poland. Of course, the Russians would not do so willingly; but perhaps they would have to. In making his submission to Tito, Khrushchev had acknowledged that there could be "other roads to socialism." He had, at Tito's urging, rehabilitated satellite lead ers (sometimes posthumously) who had once defied Stalin...
...banner of Communist China. Below, on the stone gates of a huge hall built by the Russians two years ago to house their industrial exhibition, the legend "Chinese-Russian Friendship" had been scraped out, and the Chinese had diligently chiseled instead: "China-Japan Amity." Peking, exploiting any opportunity to loosen Japan's ties with the West, had decided to make a big thing of a Japanese trade fair, the first since the prewar days when North China was the biggest market in imperial Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...records (later broken) in the 80-meter hurdles and javelin throw in the 1932 Olympics (where she also tied for first place in the high jump, was dropped to second for her unorthodox style), discovered golf in 1931 and was soon outdriving men ("You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it"), won 56 major tournaments; after a three-year fight with cancer; in Galveston, Texas. Ranked by many the world's greatest woman athlete, Babe Didrikson dabbled expertly in most sports she did not star in (including boxing, football, swimming, pool, tennis...
Harvard alumni all over the world are hoping not, for as Jordan ominously pointed out. "Let one line loosen, and all the others will loosen too." Although Jordan was quoted with reference to the present ethical crisis in college football, observers fear that his association with the College has lead him to attach several secondary sub-meanings to his portentous words...