Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Attitudes at home set more stringent limits as a rising number of Americans demand to know why they must commit their strength on distant frontiers. They see a diminishing threat to their security as world Communism splits into opposing camps. They relax as the U.S. dialogue with Russia mellows; they worry less about a Red China hobbled by internal dissension. By their insistent questions they force the Administration to search for a set of priorities, to think twice before it exercises U.S. power...
...seats, spectators were treated to views unencumbered by pillars, thanks to the structure's 407-ft., rafter-free span that is suspended by taut cables resembling the spokes of a bicycle wheel. With the Forum's time already booked for 200 days in 1968, Cooke could finally relax, proclaim his new sports palace "a timeless place, something a man can be proud...
Sidewalk Message. A reluctant France foots the bill for nearly one-fifth of its prodigal offspring's $29 million annual budget. When Soglo returned from a trip to France last month, he brought the message that "Dahomey will not in the least relax austerity...
...dashed off to join the Marines as a private at 18, saw a lot of China before mustering out as a first lieutenant in 1946 and used to relax by racing sports cars. Is that the profile of a chairman of the National Association of Manufacturers? Well, in the case of Daniel Parker, grandson of Parker Pen Co.'s founder, there were lots of other credentials-like a Harvard Business School diploma ('49), directorships of four companies, and 17 years spent working at Parker, the last seven as chairman, during which time sales increased 33%. So when...
...familiar: a period of expansion leading straight to the brink of bankruptcy for sterling at $2.80, then a rescue loan to buy time while the government damped down the economy. Once a spell of austerity built up Britain's reserves anew, governments invariably felt politically impelled to relax restrictions and let the whole expansion-to-the-brink process begin again...