Word: loosens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would make it difficult for ships to pick up transatlantic loads in both directions-and one-way loads are not profitable. At week's end. unofficial negotiations for the release of Bay of Pigs invaders from Castro prisons approached a climax. However welcome, it would do nothing to loosen the Soviet grip on the island...
Violently resisting any step that might loosen their feudal hold on the pinched and primitive peasantry, Mafia bullyboys scared off government engineers with threats and gunfire, sabotaged machinery for the dam. Landowners, whose fields would be submerged by the backed-up water, turned down the government's offer of $840 per acre, asked $3,600 instead -presumably on Mafia orders...
...also being pushed in the economic field; the Minister of Industry is cutting away at the red tape that makes it all but impossible for private companies to get established or to expand in some fields; Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres and Finance Minister Mariano Navarro Rubio have worked to loosen Spain's traditional restrictions on imports and exchange...
Russia's Valery Brumel danced a little jig to loosen his leg muscles. He lifted his left hand in a crisp salute-a signal that he was ready. Suddenly he was galloping violently toward the pit. His left foot slammed into the ground and his body hurtled upward-left arm tucked against his chest, right leg thrust high. He barely grazed the crossbar; then he was clear and falling, the bar quivering behind him. The jump measured 7 ft. 5 in., a new world's record. And as Brumel bounced joyfully from the sawdust pit, 81,000 people...
Five seconds to air time. "Untie your shoes and loosen your girdles," says the portly announcer, drawing a laugh. Then Don McNeill steps out on the stage and shoves the announcer into the lap of a giggling matron in the front row. In the burst of laughter, the band strikes up, and everybody in the Fountain Room at Chicago's Sherman House Hotel rousingly sings: "Good morning, breakfast clubbers, Good morning...