Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this boon to babies did not mean that their parents would shortly be wallowing in bobby pins, pot scourers and can openers. WPB flatly refused to relax metal restrictions on 646 other civilian items, despite the ample steel supply. A few weeks ago WPB's Office of Civilian Requirements was talking hopefully of supplying pent-up demands for many a much-missed article of everyday life. It still plans soon to increase the manufacture of alarm clocks, let a score of other minor items dribble out. But for the most part, OCR has now decided to keep...
Never Mind the Weather. Neither snow nor mud stop the dogs or their admirers. On sticky Saturdays tracks are coated with tar. Crowds of 15,000-all that wartime laws allow-relax in covered stands. Races take only half a minute over the 525-yd. track, with all six dogs sometimes finishing within i/io of a second...
Most Americans now 40 were still in their 20s when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House; thousands of U.S. soldiers and sailors fighting around the world remember no other President. Yet associates still marvel at his Gargantuan appetite for work, his ability to relax in the midst of it, his endless gay optimism. As it has to everyone else, the strain of war has wrenched, strained and hacked at his basic traits of character. But in the President's case the grind has only polished what was already polished, only toughened what was already steel-strong...
...lights went on again-within reason-all over the U.S. After 14 to 18 months of dimout, cities along the East, West and Gulf Coasts were told to relax and light up-but not too much. Chief reservations: 1) Washington suggested that a "brownout" (midway between total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
...seeks to relax its audiences just enough to rouse them. It's Only the Beginning has few high jinks, never strays far from its message...