Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once more the distinction between relative justice and tyranny. Our tyrannical opponent is as unscrupulous as tyrannies always are. . . . Since this new tyranny is not only unscrupulous but possesses the guile to exploit our moral and political weaknesses, it must be the business of a genuine liberalism not to relax our outer defenses but to make our political and economic life more worthy of our faith and therefore more impregnable. War with Russia is neither imminent nor inevitable if we have a creative policy. Let us, therefore, avoid hysteria even while we abjure sentimental illusions...
...Moscow Radio charged last week-to "stay out of touch with the life of their people and the problems which moved all freedom-loving humanity," but Soviet writers, warned a Pravda editorial, must dispense with the "nonsensical theory of a postwar breathing space and the right of literature to relax from ideology...
This happens several times, the loyal Eli rooters relax and breathe normally, and the game proceeds. Suddenly there's a quick lateral, and the fleet-footed Negro star is twenty yards outside the defensive end racing past the secondary. He cuts in toward the middle, runs head-on into three tacklers, stops dead in his tracks, and a moment later is in the clear running for the goal line. Not a single downfield block has been visible to the naked...
...Communists offered to relax their stranglehold in return for admission to the Government. As Nanking saw it, this would surely turn out to be a higher price than it looked. Since the successful truce negotiations last spring, more & more Nationalist leaders, including some moderates, had reached the conclusion that a deal with the Communists would be futile because they could not be trusted. What, Nanking asked, would be the point of a coalition in which the Communists still clung to their semi-underground military position as a means of extorting more concessions from the Kuomintang...
...open the womb and thrust out the child, causing pain and compounding the fear into further suffering. He claims to have made childbirth a pleasure for many women by 1) starting to dispel their fears and ignorance soon after they become pregnant, 2) teaching them in advance how to relax and make the child come easily, 3) giving them close, sympathetic attention during the early stages of labor, when many doctors and nurses abandon the patient to a lonely state of terror and pain...