Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stud trouble must be mutilated so that it cannot be used again without a trip to the factory for careful rehabilitation. When the report on Flight 476 is circulated through airline bases, inspectors will think twice before cutting corners. But the CAB's detectives will not relax their vigilance. New airplanes have new weaknesses, which must be found and corrected. New accidents, even though fewer in number, will bring new problems for the detectives...
...potential of death instinct - and I believe it can - then we are in a position to urge with conviction the psychoanalysis of all candidates for significant political leadership. But even that is a remote and limited goal. The impact of Freud's writings has been sufficient to relax . . . some of the most recent and superficial repressions even of individuals who have not been analyzed. If the death instinct is equally well accepted and publicized by analysts, would dissemination of this information have a salutary effect on society...
Bolshevik Kaganovich's boast that the 20th century would be "the century of Communism, was a tonic to abstemious old Vyacheslav Molotov who has never been able to disguise his implacable hostility to the West or to play with any conviction the role ot a man out to relax tensions. That night he exulted to a newsman: "I have heard many good things in Moscow. I am leaving for Geneva with even better baggage than I brought...
...change can be brought about peacefully. History does not justify this conclusion. The recent liberation of Austria came about primarily because world opinion insistently demanded it as a step which represented elemental justice. In the same way world opinion will act as a compulsion on the Soviet Union to relax its grip upon East Germany and to permit the unification of Germany. Also, I believe that world opinion will compel the restoration of national independence to the captive states of Eastern Europe. Independence must also come to those dependent countries whose people desire independence and are capable of sustaining...
...their married life. For the past twelve years home has been a small four-room apartment-office, living room, two bedrooms and kitchenette-in Manhattan's Delmonico Hotel on Park Avenue. Last year Ed bought a 2OO-acre dairy farm in Southbury, Conn., where he can occasionally relax, as fond parent and grandfather, with his 24-year-old daughter Betty and her two children (Robert Edward, 1½, and Carla Elizabeth, 3 weeks), while Betty's husband, Lieut, (j.g.) Robert Precht Jr., is on a tour of sea duty...