Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulations. They have trumpeted results of favorable research and have not mentioned unfavorable research; they have puffed up what was insignificant clinical evidence; they have substituted emotional appeals for scientific ones." To Goddard, it was all a matter of tone-professional tone. "For example, no drug categorically 'relaxes both physical and emotional tension' all by itself. But a drug can help to relax these conditions or can often relax these conditions...
...there was quiet, almost shy Army Lieut. General Suharto, Indonesia's apparent new strongman, sitting on Dewi's right. As photographers clicked away, the dinner guests sipped their soup in icy silence. Not until Dewi coaxed a smile, and then a laugh, from Suharto did everyone relax...
After the first Soviet troops fought their way into the city, however, the terrified populace began to relax somewhat. The soldiers sometimes seized watches and jewelry, and they dealt ruthlessly with any kind of resistance, but in general they ignored civilians. One fighting unit, bivouacking in Schwarze Grund Park, shared food and candy with neighborhood children. Other soldiers took it as a great joke when they saw how their presence petrified some Berliners. Still, more than a little prophetic was the comment of a polite young Soviet lieutenant who told a Roman Catholic mother superior: "These are good, disciplined...
...there for journalists in 1957 and more recently by granting travel permits to doctors, scientists and scholars. The Communists have invariably rebuffed such overtures. Since December the Ad ministration has been conducting a complete reappraisal of its China policy. So far, the inclination has been toward further attempts to relax tensions, possibly even including cancellation of the U.S. embargo on nonstrategic trade with the Chinese. When a high-powered West German consortium recently notified Washington that it had contracted to build (on credit) big, up-to-date steel plants in Szechwan province, the Administration made no attempt to block...
...regaining control of the spacecraft slowly," he reported. By the time Gemini was out over the Pacific, it was getting back on even keel, sailing serenely through space only a few miles away from the Agena, which had been re-stabilized by radioed commands from ground controllers. "O.K., relax," the Coastal Sentry controller advised the astronauts. "Everything...