Word: loosening
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...Moscow sessions, Donahue toned down his act a bit, though he had to work hard to loosen up audiences (wired with earphones to provide simultaneous translations) who were clearly unaccustomed to American-style TV free-for- alls. In the program on family life, for example, Donahue asked a studio full of married couples their opinions on birth control and abortion. The response was almost total silence. A show with some 350 teenagers, however, was considerably more animated, as Donahue hopped about in sweater and jeans and a Soviet rock band provided musical interludes...
...family, different people take different satisfactions from the choir. Igelbrink, a vice president at Sperry & Hutchinson Co., arrives at rehearsal with his office face on, peering over his reading glasses, but begins to loosen up on Give Us the Wings of Faith. Chris Forrest, a computer consultant, delights in the camaraderie with professional singers...
...teams come out soon after and loosen up. Some players stretch their legs on the sides of the boards. The goalies skate to the nets and slash up the ice in front of them. Getting comfortable. Finding a rhythm...
...realities of research funding. As the University has increasingly become the recipient of government funds normally directed toward academic research, and corporate gifts have dropped off, cash from the CIA and the like looks increasingly tempting to political scientists, economists, and regional specialists. While the CIA has pledged to loosen the strings on its grants, it is up to University Hall to establish firm controls on this kind of activity. President of the University Derek C. Bok has promised new guidelines to prevent a repeat of this fiasco, and one can only wish him Godspeed. But as Dean Spence...
While one diver, armed with a hammer and chisel, began chipping away around a copper ingot, trying to loosen it from concreted sediment, another culled the bottom, scooping sand with one hand and drawing it into a suction tube held in the other. Suddenly, something metallic flashed in the dim light filtering through the water. It was a piece of gold jewelry that had remained hidden from sight for 34 centuries. In the next several minutes, the team members uncovered more jewelry, a quartz bead, broken arrowheads and pottery shards, which they stored in a red-and-white plastic container...