Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...court-martial board pondered just 40 minutes and handed down a wrist-tapping sentence of $100 a month less in pay for 15 months, suspension of rank for a year, i.e., no command job, but eligible for staff work, loss of privileges, and a reprimand. "The nation can relax and breathe easier now," said Counsel Jenkins. "We did all right," said Colonel Nickerson. "What have I got to appeal? I was guilty and was properly punished. If there had been no sentence at all, it would have undermined discipline in the Army...
Even some Nuri supporters have lately complained that the time had come to relax the strict controls that Nuri imposed at the beginning of the Suez crisis. Shrewdly, Nuri had combined his vacation plans with an old maneuver-stepping down to produce an illusion of "change" when politicians began to grumble...
There is much to be done. If one can ever sit back and relax about an educational problem, he cannot do it yet aboutGen Ed. But there is room for a feeling of accomplishment. In the words of one professor of long standing, "General Education, for all its defects in execution, aims at a useful goal, and whatever its failings may have been, has had 'successes' which more than counter-balance them, 'successes' of a sort less commonly achieved when Gen Ed was not in existence."KENNETH B. MURDOCK Chairman of the Committee on General Education...
...been to persuade the Western nations to enforce tough trade restrictions on Communist China- tougher even than on the Soviet bloc-specifically because Red China was a naked aggressor in Korea. Last week the policy was ripped up the middle when the British announced that they intended to relax their controls on Peking; Norway followed suit and so, probably, will others (see FOREIGN NEWS). The argument, as the British put it, was that it was "a vexatious anomaly" that Britain could not sell to Communist China what it could sell to Communist Russia, and that such inequity should be corrected...
They may sail on the Charles, relax on a mat (body mechanics), shoot arrows, ride horses, go bowling, play field hockey, or even fence; it makes little difference. But somehow, almost in whatever way they fancy, Radcliffe girls must take a year of physical education...