Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispersible, devastating guarantee of destruction to any enemy tempted to touch off an all-out assault. With Polaris submarines at sea, no enemy can possibly figure on knocking out U.S. power with a strike at SAC airfields and missile bases. In the long pull of cold war, Polaris will relax pressures on overseas allies, some uneasy at the provocative presence of U.S. missile sites. Polaris itself is listed as an intermediate range missile, but Polaris-plus-submarine bids to be perhaps the most effective intercontinental missile of all. Both George Washington, which fired last week's test...
...that had destroyed the pleasures of their new homeland for the bereaved parents. Peter Kurylak, whose lost twelve-year-old, Orest, had been born in a German D.P. camp, spoke for all of them: "I did not send my boy to the Army. I sent him to camp to relax, to get away from the city and the traffic. Twelve years I was working for that one son I had. I drove him to school when he was little. I went over at noon to see how he played, what he did. I wanted him in camp so he wouldn...
Concluded Optimist Dale: "Let us face it. Europe is vigorous and thriving, and fully with us. The Soviets have hardly made an inch in ten years in the uncommitted world, and we have made several. Perhaps we could make a few more if we would only relax, stop mourning, and keep on doing what we have been doing...
Patterson could afford to relax. Ever since Johansson knocked him out and took away his title last June, the nation's sportswriters had been turning Patterson id-side out and diagnosing him as a brooder who would never regain the championship. But as Floyd Patterson drowsed in his dressing room, his mind's eye could run over the past months-months spent partly in brooding, but mostly in dedicated training and planning...
...year-old kid out of Commerce, Okla., Mantle was bewildered by the big money and the big publicity that swamped him when he took over the job of Joe DiMaggio in the Yankees' centerfield. Mantle is still a shy, stubborn introvert, who now manages to relax enough among teammates to be judged a wry dugout wit, is respected for playing while injured...