Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future will tell whether the Communists can safely loosen the leash while making it more secure; or whether the demands of the classes they must educate to staff their industrial expansion will prove harder and harder to satisfy without major modifications of Communist practice. But the Soviet concessions, however overdue and inadequate, are an easement to millions of hard-pressed subjects. As such, they are not necessarily defeats for the West, though the West tends to make them...
...question then arises, how can increased U.S.-Soviet trade be accomplished? Barriers to such commerce will, obviously, have to be lowered. The U.S. Government should loosen its classification of "strategic" goods, and limit that category to those materials which are clearly and in the short-run directly applicable to Soviet military uses. In addition, the U.S. will have to specify that in order to receive the newly-released materials, the Kremlin will also have to accept consumer goods, and those in excess of other commodities. Some ratio can be created relating the amount of newly-released capital or raw goods...
...until the bar passed 14 feet. Tobacco smoke gathered over the tight oval of the banked-board track while sweat-suited runners in their warmups jogged endlessly toward nowhere. Hurdlers twisted into weird calisthenics all over the infield. Here and there some exhibitionist dropped into a handstand, presumably to loosen his legs. Hordes of officials in boiled shirts hardly had room to get out of their...
...willing to send and receive persons under conditions it could closely control. But it reacted most violently against anything that smacked of the elimination of barriers to the freer exchange of ideas . . . After a generation of fanatical indoctrination the So viet rulers can hardly bring themselves to loosen their existing thought controls so as to permit a freer contact with the free world...
...week, as the nation's builders clamored over the drop in housing starts caused by the tightening of mortgage money (see above). Housing Administrator Albert Cole promised the Mortgage Bankers Convention in Los Angeles: "I can assure you ... the hands that tightened the rein will not hesitate to loosen it when and as conditions so recommend...