Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Counter-Revolution. Controversial subjects such as politics and religion are forbidden on Yosian ambles. Members are "of all races, colors and creeds, a sort of walking democracy ... a meeting of the minds as the bodies relax." But there have been troublemakers. Just before the U.S. entered World War II, says Swift, "the Communists made my life hell." It may have been because Swift had broken his own rule and was indulging in subtle counter-revolutionary propaganda, using analogies from nature (ant life...
...have to return invitations") and, as a rule, refused to get into a boiled shirt. As always, he had no use for golf, gambling, the races, fishing, or "that damned gin rummy." Work was his play. He had never bothered to learn the small tricks by which lesser fry relax...
According to an information pamphlet issued by the Counsellor, "Requirements for admission have been made more elastic, not to relax standards, but to clear away unnecessary red tape which might work against men who have been fighting instead of studying." The object of this action, said the bulletin, is the University determination to keep education in Cambridge open to qualified men on the most flexible basis possible and to provide--to all veterans who apply disinterested and purposeful advice...
...tomorrow, there could be no jam today. There would not even be jam tomorrow unless they all, women and old men included, worked more today. The U.S. loan (if Congress approved it) would help to revive British trade, but it would not permit Britain "to relax, only to work all the harder...
...doctor's orders, the little king, who has always run his empire like an absolute monarch, has supposedly retired. Sample behavior in retirement: when he went to the races to relax, he ended up buying a string of race horses...