Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, General Chen had stalled and made concessions. Outnumbered, he had promised to curb his troops, relax monopoly controls. He had sent another Miss Hsieh (whose full name meant Thanks Moon Angel) to the radio to assure the public-incorrectly-that nobody had been killed when the gendarmes fired into the crowd on the first day. Moon Angel was just as well known as Snow Red. She was a Taipeh lady doctor, locally famous for championing relief and rehabilitation for displaced prostitutes, who had beaten Snow Red for election as Formosa's woman delegate to the National Assembly...
While most undergraduates take advantage of the spring vacation to relax from the strain of scholastic work, five different College groups will devote the next week to carrying the came of Fair Harvard to outlying athletic, theatrical, and choral fronts...
...burning very late," Mr. Bender writes, "and there is not much leisurely talk or fellowship or group spirit. In the College, particularly, there is an unhealthy emphasis on grades." Here is a problem that Bender will inherit in all its complexity from Dean Hanford next July: how to relax the veteran and Keep Harvard from becoming a round-the-clock grind factory. This is no easy task, with graduate schools expecting their peak demand for admission to last longer than in the College. Nonetheless, a greater emphasis on activities, more efficiently run activities, a Student Activities Center--in general, more...
Marshall applied this warning to the U.S. public today, noting "a natural tendency to relax and to return to business as usual, politics as usual, pleasure as usual. Many of our people have become indifferent to what I might term the long-term dangers to the nation's security...
...fellow the photographers and white folks saw was not the Joe Louis that Harlem knew. Away from his own people, he was always conscientious about being a credit to his race. Harlem knew him as a man sometimes angry and sometimes moody-but also a fellow who could relax, laugh his head off, throw expensive parties. He was the softest touch in town. His friends told him that hangers-on sometimes "borrowed" up to $50 from Joe's pants while he was taking a bath, but Joe didn't seem to mind. Said he: "Money...