Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never sugary due to the large chunk of non-taxable land owned by Harvard, have their ups and downs. In the "up" periods, the two corporate bodies usually leave each other alone and no more. During such periods, the University's sun shines, its buildings rise, and its lawyers relax...
...least, as quiet as it can get with four children," he remarks--but the Yovicsin were entertaining friends from Pennsylvania. "My plans were already made. I went home and faced the company," he says. It is hard to be perfectly at ease after a defeat; "I don't really relax for 24 hours or more," Yovicsin admits...
INCREASED U.S.-U.S.S.R. TRADE: The Administration and Congress may relax some restrictions against U.S. trade with Russia, said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, if Khrushchev follows through on his promise to reopen negotiations on the unpaid lend-lease debt, shows good faith by some reasonable payment on an obligation that the U.S. has already written down from $2.6 billion to $800 million. Moscow also published a fact that U.S. sources politely kept off the record for a week: Khrushchev asked industriailsts and financiers at a Washington dinner for loans to finance Soviet purchases...
...creating a peaceful atmosphere. But if, on the other hand, all the talk was just more Communist bunkum, then in terms of world hopes raised and dashed, the Khrushchev trip could only be a fiasco. In either case, it was certainly not yet time for the free world to relax its guard...
Officially speaking, he had come to the U.S. avowing that he hoped to relax tensions-and, in a way that was probably not on his agenda, he had. In three days of secret talks with President Eisenhower at Camp David, Maryland (see The Presidency), he had given what the U.S. took to be a commitment to lift the ultimatum on West Berlin that he had invoked last November...