Word: looser
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...J.P.L. crowd," he says, "is looser, more relaxed, without those worries of having a man up there. Also there is more of a sense of true exploration, more a feeling of touching the 2001 slab. Because of the scarcity of facts about Mars, there is more scientific speculation, a broader spectrum of scenarios upon which hinge some mighty scientific reputations...
...Pompidou won certain assurances from Heath. One was that Britain would place the Market's economic interests ahead of London's commitments elsewhere. Heath also advised Pompidou that Britain would ultimately put the EEC political considerations ahead of its loose ties to the Commonwealth and its even looser ties to the U.S. That helped convince Pompidou that the British have become sufficiently European-minded...
Somehow, between all the landfalls, mini-histories are fitted in-asides about mutinies and scholarly lectures on navigation, on fishing, on map making, on sea chanteys ("Heisa, heisa, vorsa, vorsa, wow, wow," to quote one). The sea turns Morison into a lyric poet who sometimes applies looser moral standards to seamen than to shorebound sinners...
...ever there has been a looser construction of the Constitution in this court's history," said Justice Hugo Black in a blistering ad lib accompanying his written dissent, "I fail to think what it is." Black drew a sharp distinction between the protected rights of poor criminal defendants brought to court against their will and the private, civil claims of the impoverished who come into court on their own. Black predicted that the decision will encourage divorces at taxpayers' expense and lead to a future court-imposed right to counsel for the poor in divorce and other civil...
...real problem of maintaining a proper perspective between the private James Taylor he and his friends know and the public James Taylor who sometimes seems to be coming in the windows. One of the newest songs on his forthcoming album?in the same vein as Sweet Baby James, but looser, more free and easy?describes the odd schizoid feeling of hearing his own voice on the jukebox...