Word: rein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colleagues the Colonel was refreshingly frank: he was no Anglophile; he wanted to see how Britain was doing; he thought Britain and the U. S. could help each other in "a relationship of mutual selfishness." The British understood this kind of talk, gave Colonel Donovan a free rein. He traveled through England, observed that the British had trained themselves to fight a guerrilla war if their island was invaded, concluded that guerrilla warfare would be effective if the British were not exhausted. The British problem, as the Colonel saw it, was to resist all kinds of assault without exhausting their...
Directed by grey, crop-haired Major W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke II, U. S. M. C., Rage in Heaven is the kind of swift, smooth whodunit which Hollywood can achieve by letting its good performers perform without unnecessary interference. Well fitted for such free rein is Swedish-born Ingrid Bergman, who makes a patterned ingénue role as important as many a prima donna's meatiest dramatic excursion...
...Blue networks, proceeded to cut down on its aerial schedule. While the economical mood was on it, P. & G. also decided to give up its Everyman's Theatre, least popular of its three nocturnal programs, on which it had given radio's wunderkind, Arch Oboler, free rein since last October...
Mortal fear of the U. S. armed services, particularly the Navy, is uncontrolled publicity. They also fear that given a free rein, reporters, radio commentators and photographers are likely now & then to spill secrets that the Axis powers would dearly like to know...
...morning ride through Copenhagen last week, Denmark's gaunt, brooding monarch Christian X saw something that caused him to rein in suddenly. It was the Nazi swastika waving over a public building, a rank violation of the terms which Hitler imposed on Denmark...