Word: loosening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taverns and-officially for only the second year-women of all ages. Alfred Ventrillo, a sightless, 65-year-old pensioner, was running "to inspire blind people." Author Erich Segal was toting a portable microphone to record his on-the-run comments for a TV show. Sauer danced nervously to loosen up his legs. Later he recalled thinking: "It's finally here. You've been waking up in the middle of the night wondering about it, and here it is such a beautiful day, the nicest atmosphere you can imagine...
...then, Harvard agreed that steps should be taken to loosen the Portuguese grip on Africa...
More substantively, Gulf bows to pressure and begins to initiate reforms in its African operations--reforms that help loosen the Portuguese grip. Other oil companies with African operations take note, wary of similar campaigns being mapped in their direction. The cause of black Africans fighting for their freedom is helped measurably--and all because Harvard is viewed as a miracle wonderland...
Roswitha M. Winsor, co-chairman of Committee for a Sane Drug Policy, said yesterday that while the bill would substantially loosen marijuana laws, it is still "in some ways ridiculously conservative...
...mentally pinpointing the psychophysical need and by physically acknowledging it through tears, baby talk, or whatever form of communication is appropriate for the time of childhood deprivation, the patient frees himself from the impules to release tension through symbolic behavior. This is accompanied by physical convulsions as muscles loosen after a lifetime of tension and resistence. The physical reaction--the all-out cry for fulfillment--is the Primal Scream. It is a reconnection of mind and body, and physical changes--in voice pitch, height, breast size, and so on--often accompany the cure and are specifically connected with each patient...