Word: relax
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bright sun that was AWOL during his visit last month, Dwight Eisenhower last week stepped from Columbine III at Augusta's Bush Field. "Boy," said he, "this is better weather." Budget problems pressing, his strenuous mission to eleven countries only three weeks away, the President was eager to relax. Sped to the Augusta National Golf Club, he swapped his brown business suit for slacks and a sports shirt, was on the practice tee within 15 minutes...
...Teas don't generally do this very well," Mrs. Emerson remarked. "I often think that people bring too many cookies and not enough else with them. I prefer to give dinners. By six o'clock working wives can relax and enjoy themselves, the groups are smaller, and we have time to really talk. Teas are too large and too anonymous. One time, a newcomer at a tea came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to meet. I was really very delighted...
...Augusta press conference, Eisenhower sighed: "I was thinking we could do this by the end of the year . . . That still remains my position." In other words, Ike wished that De Gaulle would change his mind, but was not going to twist his arm. Advised one senior U.S. official: "Relax. Neither a Western pre-summit nor an East-West summit is going to be held very soon unless De Gaulle changes his mind...
...right to intervene; he wants no embarrassing precedents set. On similar grounds, France regards Algeria and India considers Kashmir an internal affair. Krishna Menon expressed his nation's "distress" over events in Tibet but did not think "a warming up of issues" would help relax international tensions...
...days of the week and late into every night, Hubbell Robinson drives himself and his underlings with the kind of awesome energy that has made him TV's biggest producer. Sundays at his Beverly Hills home he likes to relax by donning a topee or a menacing German combat helmet and a British officer's short jacket and moodily marching about with his poodles (names: Hedda and Louella) and his vast television dreams. Occasionally, his reverie may be shattered by a cry from his third wife,* blonde Musicomedienne Vivienne (Pal Joey) Segal: "For heaven's sake...