Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...widely shared conclusion that Margaret just "cannot sing very well." He wrote: "Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality. She is extremely attractive on the stage. Yet . . . there are few moments during her recital when one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song...
...political prophets, haunted by the memory of 1948, tiptoed into the homestretch of the 1950 election with bated breaths. Party bosses made only the modest kind of claims. Apparently they were afraid that too much optimism might cause party workers to relax. The great looming doubt was the sleeper vote. But some prognosticators put their necks out about 1 inch. Some necks showing...
...this is very entertaining. It is all nonsense, of course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...
...which usually sternly preaches that countries must live within their means, kept telling the Italian government that it was not living up to its means. ECA officials advised the government to relax credit to give industry a badly needed impetus, expend more ECA counterpart funds on public works to reduce unemployment. The government for the most part ignored these suggestions. Last week, New York Times Correspondent Arnaldo Cortesi summed up ECA's complaints in a dispatch to his newspaper. When the Italian press picked up the story, Italy's able ECA Chief Leon Dayton, former president...
...reveal the plot and title of whatever book I am at work on . . . I know that the human mind is rarely capable of repeating the most familiar story with any accuracy five minutes after it has been told." Henry (Loving) Green: "I write at night and at weekends. I relax with drink and conversation . . . And so I hope to go on till I die, rather sooner now than later...