Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wildlife Service did not relax, but it felt the tide had turned. By this year's count, the trumpeter population was up to 301, most of them young and ambitious...
...Cyril Osborne urged Parliament to send beefy Ernest Bevin to the U.S. to offset waspish Laski's influence. Declared Osborne: let the Government "keep some of their wandering minstrels from the London School of Economics at home." Minstrel Laski's proposal of the week: let the U.S. relax international tension right now by destroying its atomic bomb stockpile...
...Utmost. Back in England, they built a country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost...
Next day, when temptation and tempers had cooled, the motion was put to vote. Only one Republican-California's Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart-joined Senator Ferguson. By a vote of 6-to-2, the committee let Winston Churchill relax...
...very hopeful about Bretton Woods, was just going to do her damnedest to make Bretton Woods and its related arrangements work well for Britain. Bretton Woods was part & parcel of the larger deal with the U.S. whereby Britain got a loan she badly needed, and in return promised to relax the exchange controls and imperial preferences which had bolstered her trade within the sterling area. British objections were aimed at two features of the Bretton Woods plan...