Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Just Relax. In the early course of these inquiries, the Chinese were told in all seriousness that there would be no problem of communication or plane identification since the Seventh Fleet would stay completely away from Formosa. Incredulous Chinese officials pointed out that planes from a U.S. carrier would surely at some time or other approach the Formosan coast. What if a U.S. plane were in trouble far from its carrier-would it ditch at sea rather than land on Formosa? The American attitude remained: you boys just relax, you'll never see Seventh Fleet ships or planes...
...Woman's Machinery. Change of life means that a woman is through with her childbearing days, but not necessarily her sexual life. In fact, says Dr. Lincoln, with the fear of pregnancy removed, many women relax completely and really enjoy sex for the first time in their lives...
...thousands of miles of ocean, the conquered Pacific which U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen had made an American lake. Before him lay the submission of a God-Emperor and proconsular rule over Japan. A man less wise than Douglas MacArthur might have thought that, at 65, he could relax and enjoy the fruits of hard-won victory...
Management, said C.E.D., must also make the lives of its workers "more meaningful and satisfying" by making clear the importance of an individual's contribution to the total output, and by drawing on his ideas for improving output. Unions should relax their seniority rules, which have hampered "management's right to recognize ability and efficiency in making promotions." and swap their featherbedding requirements, where they exist, for higher wages...
...Benioff does not try to guess what generates the strain, but he speculates on how it is released. Great earthquakes, he says, are associated with major faults (cracks) in the crust. When the faults are locked tightly together, the strain accumulates without producing earthquakes. When the faults relax, the rocks slip and shake the earth...