Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stage and movie screen, a wing of workshops with special looms for reweaving damaged fabrics, photo labs and a microfilm room, a complete research library and special workrooms for visiting scholars. The building is air-conditioned, and when visitors get tired of looking at the exhibits, they can relax in the museum's handsome lounge, or wander out onto a flagstone patio for a view of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains...
...Administration, which wants Congress to amend the "Buy American" Act, is working on ways to liberalize it in the meantime. One idea is to lower, by executive order, the 25% differential by which foreign suppliers must underbid U.S. competitors. Another is to relax the methods of calculating the differential to give foreign suppliers a better break, and to get Government agencies to standardize the rules and conditions they set for foreign bidders...
Kinsey works 14 or more hours six days a week, and most of Sundays. An insomniac, he will often work in the middle of a sleepless night. He is compulsive about keeping appointments on the dot. He does not know how to relax. He can delegate little work, though his heart has begun to protest and doctors have warned him that he must rest. This summer he subjected himself to tremendous strain by personally handling his elaborate press relations-with results that a professional pressagent might envy. Though he decries publicity for himself, he wants it for his work...
Gaveled Fingers. In both private and public life, he has what amounts to a phobia about letting decisions hang fire. (Once he starts a whodunit for relaxation, he cannot relax until he reads through to the end.) At the Statehouse he has tackled problems which have been gathering dust in pigeonholes for years. One of the most urgent economic problems concerns Massachusetts' migrating manufacturers. Herter is well aware that New England is in economic straits because much of her industry has been moving to other parts of the country. But he has not placed the blame entirely on immutable...
...commanding performance by Georgy Malenkov: designed to reassure his own people, and to relax the nations around him without in fact reducing the Soviet armed threat to them. But there was another side to it: the size of the promised concessions showed how much ground the Communists had to make up with their own dissatisfied people...