Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make things easier for male shoppers, some stores have set up Christmastime "For Men Only" departments that are staffed with knowledgeable (and pretty) salesgirls. There, the shopper can relax in an armchair, sip a free drink and make his selections from items that are displayed for him. Unless he has a specific gift in mind, a husband is apt to buy his wife a slinky black negligee, which she almost invariably exchanges for bath towels or sensible underwear. Says a Cleveland merchandise manager, "Practically all the lingerie this time of year is sold to men. It's the kind...
...that the general strike has been called off, and a political settlement reached, the U.S. government can breathe a little easier. Certainly the Administration must give every possible aid to any regime which is truly representative. The U.S. cannot relax, however, for it will be many months, and probably years, before a stable, progressive regime can be established--if ever. In time, with a spirit of compromise among Dominican politicians, and a tolerance in the U.S. of a government which may not always be to its liking, real representative democracy may come to the Dominicans, and the stain of Trujillo...
Preppies take college more in their stride. They relax and the relative scholastic rank sags (it rises again in Medical and Law School). Their public school contemporaries are under greater pressure and change more than the preppies. The artistocratic ethos is contagious...
...Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing its industrial goals, either. At present, Li Fu-chun is masterminding a gigantic turnabout, trying to relax some of the inhuman pressures on China's peasants in order to maintain at least subsistence food production...
...pleasant indeed to be back at Yale. Here among our little cousins, we can relax and be "one of the guys." Far from wishing to give top hats to Hottentots, we want our little friends to stay the way they are--well-brushed, neatly combed, and disgustingly cheerful...