Word: loosens
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...winds which still sweep across the diamond have not helped loosen up tight pitching muscles, while the outfielders are just beginning to get the range on their throws and infielders are still getting used to the outdoor turf after weeks of work in Briggs Cage...
...celebrated living philosopher had gone into voluntary exile when Franco came to power. Now, with Franco's permission, he was back lecturing again. He had been told to stick to cultural subjects, but Ortega seemed to have other plans. He had chosen to lecture on Toynbee merely "to loosen up my fingers like a pianist." Toynbee was "a good minor subject, vast enough to be used as a pretext for ... my lifelong tendency toward social and political themes...
...Plot. Hoffman spoke softly. But his voice carried clearly across the Seine to the Hotel de Tabac, where an OEEC committee had been wrangling over a plan to loosen Europe's currency restrictions. Quickly, the committee reached a tentative agreement. If the details could be successfully worked out and agreed on, the plan would permit Western Europe's nations to buy more easily from each other, thereby relieving some of the strain on the U.S. economy...
...enlarge the Trade to Russia." The gesture was not calculated to irritate Joe Stalin. The act was merely one of 766 dusty items in Britain's parliamentary attic too old to include in a new edition of revised statutes. It was passed in 1699 to loosen the monopoly of members of the old "Muscovy Company." Other heirlooms lost in the tidying...
...punish him." Except in flagrant cases, nobody can tell by watching a race whether a jockey is trying or not. Like pro wrestlers, they can put on a great show ? lots of whip-waving and scuffling. (If they want to lose, all they need to do is loosen the reins an instant and let the horse's head drop, or run into a jam, or lose a few lengths on a turn...