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Word: relaxants (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimately thwarted, the present mood could suddenly change, and all the old bitterness and violence could come back redoubled by a new sense of failure. If whites in industry, in labor unions, in government, indeed everywhere, decided that the relative calm in the ghetto meant that they could relax rather than press ahead with fresh help, welcoming the blacks into all parts of American society, then the result could be racial chaos far worse than any the U.S. has yet known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: BUILD, BABY, BUILD: WHY THE SUMMER WAS QUIET | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...forever on the revolutionary edge of his early songs, even if his attacks on the "masters of war" and the "hard rain" of atomic fallout did help make him a myth in the first place? Now 28, happily married and the father of four, he seems to want to relax and write new songs about innocent pleasures and the delights of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Poet's Return: It's What I Do | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

...other hand, he urged the Senate to relax the House provisions aimed at closing four other tax loopholes. For presently tax-exempt foundations, he proposed a 2% tax on investment income instead of the House's 7½% rate. He asked that the interest paid on municipal and state bonds remain taxfree; local officials insist that it would be extremely difficult to sell their bonds under House provisions that would make them partially taxable. Responding to protests by charitable institutions, Kennedy urged the Senate to drop House restrictions on the deductibility of certain donations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: NIXON'S SURPRISE CALL FOR MILDER TAX REFORM | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

Artul Equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam No.40. The our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effect of Marx or Freud." (V.G.); "but whether this a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one might be droll enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 8/19/1969 | See Source »

...hour work day, Heikal heads home to a luxurious Cairo apartment to relax with his wife and three sons. His very presence makes the apartment building a coveted address because, says a Cairo diplomat, "everything works-or else." His comfortable existence is marred only by a thin shadow of danger. His outspokenness (some call it arrogance) has earned him enemies, and his survival-like his power-rests with a single man. "If Nasser ever goes," says one well-placed Egyptian, "Heikal had better be on the next plane out of the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Editors: Nasser's Pal | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

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