Word: relaxation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...visit may have helped "to relax" relations, Sihanouk later said, but it did nothing to alter the Prince's conviction that "sooner or later, all Asia will be Chinese." In nearly three hours of bafflegab at a press conference, he unequivocally supported Hanoi's terms for ending the war in Viet Nam. As soon as America stopped sending planes over the Cambodian border and recognized his country's "territorial integrity," allowed the Prince, he would be delighted to resume diplomatic relations with Washington...
...influence in Andorran life, were irked that he had refused to meet his Spanish Co-Prince, the Bishop of Urgel, except at an out-of-the-way church. The bishop remained in Spain. De Gaulle also upset the Andorran elders, who zealously guard their privileges, by urging them to relax the strict rules that deny citizenship to two-thirds of Andorra's 15,000 residents. And he winced visibly when the Andorrans broke into a game but off-key rendering of La Marseillaise...
...dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were in a different groove-Andy Williams. Says Mulligan: "She's a kid who had a fear of music laid on her as a child. She's just now learning to relax...
Recently, Trappist abbots took up the issue in a meeting at Citeaux monastery in France, which is the order's headquarters (the order took the name Trappist from another monastery at La Trappe, France). After exhaustive debate-permitted at the abbots' policy meetings-they decided to relax the Trappists' rule of silence, a step allowed under the Second Vatican Council's decree authorizing Catholic orders to modernize their codes of behavior. The world's 80 Trappist monasteries (including twelve in the U.S.) are not about to turn into Towers of Babel; but Trappists henceforth will...
...Relax, Stan. At the rate the Cardinals have been losing lately-hardly ever-Stan the Man (lifetime batting average: .331) can relax and enjoy his retirement. Last week, with Brock and Maris contributing two hits apiece, the red-hot Redbirds scored their tenth victory in twelve games, blanking Cincinnati 5-0 and stretching their National League lead over the second-place Chicago Cubs to seven games...