Word: relaxer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johnson is more certain than ever that the air war is badly hurting Hanoi and that the best way to get peace talks started is not to relax the pressure but to keep it up. Accordingly, he moved to tighten the screws "another notch or two," as he put it. From bases in Thailand, U.S. F-105s streaked to the big Thai Nguyen steel complex 28 miles north of Hanoi and damaged it severely (see THE WORLD...
Waiting for the results of last week's legislative elections, Charles de Gaulle could relax with the easy self-assurance of a national savior. All of the experts had promised him a majority every bit as handsome as the one he enjoys in the current Assembly...
...Pleasantville, N.J., as well as branches as far away as Tokyo. Palmer's businesses rang up respectable sales of nearly $15 million last year from buffs who like to stay in Palmer motels, learn the game from Palmer books, practice on the Palmer driving ranges and putting greens, relax to Palmer records, wear Palmer clothes and get them pressed at Palmer dry cleaners...
...lightweights wrestle first. That can have two effects: either they mentally relax because of 'last-ditch performances, or they feel a responsibility to start each match with quick victories. Harvard's lightweights go for the pins...
...sense, General Francisco Franco has brought the trouble on himself by seeking in recent months to relax the tight rein that his regime had for decades imposed on Spain. Franco recently promulgated a new constitution that will ultimately bring the country at least a semblance of parliamentary democracy, also decreed that strikes were no longer illegal provided that they were called exclusively for economic reasons. Taking him at his word, Spanish workers have struck a number of times for higher wages to offset Spain's rising cost of living. But politics also clearly played a role in last week...