Word: loosest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
...other words, this mixture of politics and academics should begin with the loosest possible conception of academics. The men Neustadt brings to Cambridge should not all be members of someone's faculty...
Burgess Hill is the tight little isle's loosest "freedom" (progressive) school. Shunning all rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick...
...language is useful for scholarly research, Harvard should teach it; for example, Dutch (which Harvard doesn't teach) is invaluable for students of Fine Arts. And Harvard should teach living languages, so that its graduates may communicate with other men. This last is clearly the broadest and loosest criterion. Plainly, since even teaching all the living tongues is also beyond its means, Harvard should select those languages which matter most in today's world--those which represent thriving cultures (like modern Greek, which we don't teach), and those which many people speak...
...annual all-star game. Of all Jokester Dukes's teammates, none had so much cause for tension as the Cincinnati Royals' Oscar ("The Big O") Robertson, the only rookie to crash the starting lineup of either the East or West team. But, as always, Robertson was the loosest man in the room. Said he later: "I was ready...