Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent cigaret advertisement showed a well-groomed soldier resting comfortably in a tropical setting, under the slogan, "Light Up and Relax." This ad and others like it last week were soundly thwacked in an editorial in the Down Under (Australian area) edition of Yank, the Army weekly. Drawled Yank...
...must be remembered that the enemy still has large U-boat reserves, completed and under construction. . . . We can expect continued success only if we do not relax our efforts...
...Battle of Sicily was in its final phase. Not once did Allied pressure relax in the last 50 miles to Messina. On Aug. 2, General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery of the British Eighth Army and Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr. of the U.S. Seventh started an offensive. Within a week the generals and their men had cracked the enemy line from Mt. Etna to the Tyrrhenian Sea. Harried by land, sea and by air, the Germans fell back toward Messina's crescent beach. Less than four miles across the treacherous strait lay one castlecrowned heights of Italy...
...noon I should say that you are well done in--er--many ways. Now you have reached that point where you can really relax. And as a demonstration of Democracy in action, the government is going to help...
...buttons. Plus this, a slight stay at Portsmouth or some other rest resort and then... a lovely 1943 model long handled mop, a bucket of water, a broad expanse of deck and thou beside if on the bounding main, resting between swabs. Of course, if you'd rather not relax, you can always...