Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever we needed to fight inflation, we need to fight it in the year ahead. . . . No increase in the supplies available to civilians can be expected. At the same time, incomes continue to rise. ... It would be impossible to exaggerate the dangers that we face. We must not relax...
...City Council did not dare antagonize Denver doctors by forcing the city hospital to relax this rule. Last week Councilman Mapel, Mayor Ben Stapleton and Hospital Superintendent Carl P. Schwalb worked out a suggested compromise, which was no more than a reaffirmation of widespread hospital custom: in emergencies, the hospital would admit patients of nonstaff doctors, but staff doctors must care for them in the hospital...
...named George Harvey Bone (Laird Cregar) who overworks himself into fits of amnesia. A Scotland Yard doctor (George Sanders), who is a pioneer in criminal insanity (the year is 1903), helps Bone realize that during these blank spells he may very possibly be a murderer. Bone is advised to relax. He tries to relax with a deadly poisonous music-hall beauty named Netta (Linda Darnell). When she contemptuously uses his infatuation as a means to her own evil ends, he proves the doctor was right, using Netta's neck as a proving-ground. Still amnesiac, he plants her corpse...
...that the K.O. report is in all we have to do is sit back and relax--only finals, psycho tests, pictures, uniforms, board meetings (gulp), and commissioning stand in the way of our "taking the long way home," as sister Jo so aptly puts it. The local clergy is thinking of petitioning for finals more often--or is someone really converting all of those sinners we saw last Sunday...
...definitely calls for revision in ... Little Steel." At that point, Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson rushed to hold the crumbling line once again. To him, the Davis figures proved beyond a doubt that the Administration has done "a good job" in stabilizing living costs. Said he: "We cannot afford to relax...