Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon...
...clear fact of life, as Khrushchev likes to call it, why does Khrushchev care so much whether it is formally acknowledged by the West? Obviously, such recognition would give the final stamp of legitimacy to Soviet colonialism. By destroying all hope in the conquered lands, the West could indeed relax tensions for Russia, but at a cost of weakening itself...
Virus Escape. Kim herself has been known to relax with a drink on occasion, but, said she: "Nobody has ever accused me of drunkenness on the stage." A veteran of the "virus escape" in past shows (Bus Stop, A Clearing in the Woods and the London production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Kim missed 31 Poet performances because of illness. But with Kim gone, the situation showed no signs of calming down. When her part was offered to Understudy Malone on a permanent basis, Nancy Malone asked for $500 a week. (Kim Stanley had got at least...
...Paris, Bonn and London flew the man hailed in British headlines as "Supermac" and enthusiastically billed, on the way to British elections, as political leader of the free world. With each approaching mile, the blips showed more clearly that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan meant to persuade the U.S. to relax some of its basic cold-war policies. Forewarned by London press leaks and by its own intelligence from Western Europe, the U.S. was partly forearmed; soon after Macmillan landed he was deliberately whisked away from the pressures and pressagentry temptations of Washington to the quiet of President Eisenhower...
...remake of Broadway's Diamond Lil and brought her measure to measure with Mae West's 38-24-38. "I like 'em tight, girls," growled Mae, and was soon jammed into costumes in which she could not "lie, bend or sit." So that West could relax a bit between takes, a board was set up for her to lean against. Marlene Dietrich, arriving for a fitting, "quickly peels down, revealing the most beautiful French lingerie I've ever seen, all white, just a touch of lace...