Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...diversity that's now abroad in Eastern Europe" and to "be alert to any hope of stable settlement." But flexibility, he added, does not mean softness. "Danger has receded, but it has not disappeared. The task of building our defenses is never really done. The temptation to relax must always be resisted...
...fault is motionless, its two rock faces pressed tightly together, cemented, perhaps, by chemical action. During these quiet periods, tension builds up along the fault. If the fault finally yields at one point, the rupture races along it at several miles per second. Hundreds of miles of rock relax like a broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy that was stored inside them. Most of the energy turns into waves in the rock, and some of the waves plunge downward to pass through the earth to the opposite side. The most powerful waves run along the surface, making the solid crust...
Spain's bid for associate membership in the Common Market was at stake, and el Caudillo was willing to relax his autocratic grip a bit in order to convince the Eurocrats of his sincerity. Last week in Brussels, on the eve of the 25th-anniversary celebration of Franco's Civil War victory, Spain's two-year-old application finally got a hearing...
Could go home and relax for a week. See the family. Check out a couple of job possibilities. Summer's getting pretty close. Might do a little reading, but mostly back around. Easter's a good time of year for that sort of thing...
What has happened? There is, of course, no single turning point for such a trend. With massive U.S. help, the economies of most free-world countries have been immensely strengthened, thereby increasing their sense of independence. At the same time, troubles behind the Iron Curtain forced Russia to relax some of its old, cold-war positions. Then, last August, came the signing of the test-ban treaty, which put a big exclamation point after the fact that the cold war was no longer the same cold war, in which everyone knew the rules. While the basic issues of that...