Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military forces from Europe and the Far East to the detriment of Britain's postwar political position. Also directly involved was Britain's basic economic policy of government-controlled foreign trade and foreign exchange; as the price of U.S. credits, the U.S. might demand that Britain relax trade controls...
...next two days the President worked hard and long. Decisions came out: a shakedown in the State Department, a swift end to Lend-Lease, authority for the War Labor Board to relax wage controls (Little Steel was now a broken yardstick...
...until April did the Navy relax censorship to permit mention of enemy suicide air tactics, one of the most lurid stories in the history of warfare. But on the same day, Franklin Roosevelt died, and for most of the U.S. press the Kamikaze news was completely overshadowed...
When the gun sounded in the junior 100-meter (109.4-yd.) final, he bounced off the blocks in front, remembered his coach's repeated instructions to relax, and settled into a ground-eating glide that left the field behind. His time: 10.5, three-tenths of a second slower than Jesse Owens' world's mark. This week Junior Champ Samuels becomes Private Samuels...
When France fell, Francophile Prince Louis had proclaimed: Monaco must be "an oasis." Eventually the Germans came to Monaco too-at first in mufti to relax in the Prince's fabelhaft (fabulous) Casino and to goggle earnestly at his fabelhaft aquarium. Before they left, they had stripped the great gambling Casino in Monte Carlo of its copper dome, placed ack-ack batteries in the Tir aux Pigeons (one of Europe's famed shooting grounds), sowed mines in the sun-drenched beach. Even now Prince Louis could hear the lethal crump! crump! as Allied engineers exploded the mines...