Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, no alarmist, was alarmed. She wrote: "At a moment when Europe's inclination to relax has received such encouragement from Moscow, the talk of slowdowns and cutbacks reported from Washington is the height of folly. More, it is dangerous and irresponsible beyond belief...
...hulls, saved his money, went to Dallas, got a job as a bookkeeper with a firm that folded, got into the textbook business and went broke, started a "jitney loan" business which grew into the Mercantile National Bank. He grew rich and he grew old, but he refused to relax. ("You can't do a damned thing in a rocking chair-lots of action but no progress!") He lived...
...chosen to lull the rest of the world, to relax the external pressure in the cold war by seeming to give much and actually giving little, is an old and skilled hand at the game. He is Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Foreign Minister of Russia and Communism's Old Reliable-who has been a member of the Politburo longer than anyone else (32 years...
...Some preachers have discovered a new verb which seems to have superseded the old ones [such as] agonize . . . follow . . . sacrifice. It is the lovely verb relax." In their restatements, the old biblical admonishments might go: "If any man will come after me, let him relax." Or: "Go ye into all the world and keep down your blood pressure...
...relax '53, do whatever you choose...