Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt pond and occasional smuggling. In February, Britain tried to loosen its ties with this poor dependency by linking Anguilla with two larger and more prosperous islands to form the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation, retaining control only of foreign affairs and defense...
...Failure. At the same instant, a couple of technicians standing on a level with the craft windows saw a blinding flash inside the ship. Heavy smoke began to seep from the capsule, filling the white room. A workman sprinted across the catwalk leading to the craft, tried desperately to loosen the hatch cover. He was driven back by the intense heat and smoke, but half a dozen other technicians, some wearing face masks and asbestos gloves, raced to help. One or two would try to wrench open the hatch, then fall back from the scorching heat while others struggled with...
...Grissom became the first man ever to journey twice into space. Aided by Co-Pilot John Young, he scored yet another space first when he took over the controls himself, skill- fully piloted the craft through a series of tricky orbit-changing maneuvers. After that success, Grissom seemed to loosen up. The Apollo flight would have made him the only man to enter space three times. Hours before last week's disaster, Apollo Program Manager Shea remarked: "Gus really wants this flight. He's determined to keep that thing up there (16 days...
...Kiesinger is upset that the U.S. seems willing to negotiate a nuclear nonproliferation treaty with the Soviets that would leave unanswered the question of German participation in-and protection under-some future European nuclear strike force. De Gaulle, who opposes the treaty anyhow, used the West German annoyance to loosen slightly Kiesinger's future commitment to NATO. He got Kiesinger to agree to set up joint Franco-German military committees to plan common strategy and common weaponry for the 1970s...
Diercks had yet to make a save when he was scored upon and it took a few nervous minutes for him to loosen up in the high pressure situation...