Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make matters worse, the opposition never let him relax. Before they fell apart in the season's last few days, the Cleveland Indians got by on pitching alone and almost ran off with the race. Ted Williams came back to baseball and the Boston Red Sox got into the scramble for the lead. In Chicago the White Sox caught fire. Detroit with its hothanded kids-Kaline, Kuenn and Tuttle-was always tough...
...fight those radicals? Los Angeles public health officials could suggest only stopgap measures: 1) see a doctor if eyes or throat are severely irritated, 2) bathe eyes with eye drops, 3) visit a friend who has air conditioning, or go to a movie, 4) relax so as to breathe less...
...hampered, on his annual arrival in Denver, with a load of unfinished business. For the first few weeks he had found himself tied to his desk at Lowry Air Force Base almost half of each day, signing bills and attending to leftover work from Washington. This summer, determined to relax for a couple of weeks at least, he had boned away at his chores before leaving on vacation. Last week his briefcase was empty, and except for some routine duties, Ike could look forward to a fortnight of almost uninterrupted vacationing. "This year," he announced on his arrival in Denver...
COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...fact is that all four powers shared one ambition at Geneva: to relax world tensions. No one of them was in position either to impose, or to make, major concessions, but they could agree to moderate their voices. In doing so, the West was not trusting in Russian smiles but measuring the need of the Russian leaders to lower the cold war's temperature. Not because the Russians said so, but because the West felt their circumstances compelled the Russians to mean it, the West concluded that the chances of a war started by the Russians is continuing...