Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victory is ahead, but it is the considered judgment of our military leaders that we still have a long hard fight. We must not relax our efforts until the last enemy has laid down his arms...
Tsouderos could relax. By last week all important exiled Italians, including Count Carlo Sforza, who as Foreign Minister in 1920 had a part in strengthening Italy's grip on the potential naval base, had declared for a return of the Islands to Greece...
...will need to realize that it cannot safely relax into a simple alliance or loose confederation, made holier by lip service to democracy and dedicated to the maintenance of the status quo. It will have to find a framework for world order which, while keeping the peace better than before, permits change. It will have to find a framework which will make allowance for the fundamental U.S. bias toward freedom and growth for itself and for others...
...capital of embattled Russia celebrated the capture of Kharkov. Thus, too, Russia let off some of the strain accumulated through two years of blood, tears, broken hopes and cruel disappointments. The celebration was a safety valve. Confident of triumph, Russia's leaders were now allowing the people to relax for a night, to laugh, to inhale the sweet air of victory...
...told the cockeyed world . . . that war ... is being fought by guys who are dirty, with crawly beards and torn pants. Guys who are too hot or too cold, soaked to the skin or short of water, stinking with sweat, filthy with mud. . . . Guys who light up but seldom relax...