Word: looser
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...ants, a sui generis crossbreed, which is why we've been so successful as a nation. Our moxie comes in two basic types. We possess the Yankee virtues embodied by the founders: sobriety, hard work, practical ingenuity, common sense, fair play. And then there's our wilder, faster and looser side, that packet of attributes that makes us American instead of Canadian: impatient, hell-bent, self-invented gamblers, with a weakness for blue smoke and mirrors. A certain fired-up imprudence was present from the beginning, but it required a couple of centuries for the most extravagant version...
...Meanwhile, the brouhaha is bringing what some locals consider to be unwelcome attention to the laid-back canton. Melchior Looser, Appenzell's justice and police minister who spearheaded the proposed legislation, didn't return TIME's request for an interview but told a local newspaper that the sudden public interest in the naked-hikers issue is "absolutely ridiculous. I don't understand what all the fuss is about." (See pictures of the newest natural wonders of the world...
...think we’re just as athletic, they’re a little taller,” Crimson coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. “They just played looser than we did—we were real tight...
...readers into self-immolation), but Adamsians can talk like few others can. While this week's flamewar over the House t-shirt probably won't go down in the annals of great threads along with the wrap-sandwich debate of early '09, it was marked by one of the "looser" e-mails we've seen go out to 200+ strangers. Some might say this intrepid writer was "having too good a time," others might flatly call it inebriation...
...than just simple parish work, ideally serving as something of a roving ambassador for American Catholicism and a bridge to every walk of life that exists in America's largest metropolis. For progressive Catholic New Yorkers, however, there should be no illusions that Dolan's gregariousness will bring a looser line on such issues as abortion and gay marriage...