Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Agnew repeated to newsmen what he said he had told the Cambodians: The U.S. will not become militarily involved in any way in Cambodia except to protect or support American troops in Viet Nam. THAILAND: In warless Bangkok, his last stop, Agnew for the first time was able to relax. Unencumbered by heavy security, he signed autographs for children at his hotel, attended a state dinner in the prescribed open-necked, shortsleeved sports shirt, and, beer in hand, chatted amiably with Thai Premier Thanom Kittika-chorn. But the casualness masked serious business. The Thais are concerned about the military...
...lessons might help him to relax. She chose Charlie Lowe's Broadway show business school for kids. Charlie remembers her visit: "Fix up his diction," she said. "Sure," said Charlie. "We'll give him a little drama, teach him to sing, teach him to dance." "He'll never dance," Mama told Charlie firmly. "Just fix the diction." Charlie ignored her ("We do that") and put Elliott through the regular Lowe routine. "That meant everything," Gould recalled to TIME Correspondent Mary Cronin, "Blow-your-nose lessons, dance lessons, wipe yourself lessons, masturbation lessons, bunko. Compulsions for a dissatisfied mother...
...estimates in Athens, the nation's growth rate in 1970 will equal or surpass last year's impressive 8%. Partly in a mood of gathering confidence and partly in an effort to placate opinion abroad, the country's ruling colonels have now taken some measures to relax their dictatorship...
Greece's growing mood of relaxation has raised the question of whether that junta may soon allow free elections and relax martial law. But Premier George Papadopoulos still refuses to set a date for elections. The Greeks have such a passionate interest in politics, explains Papadopoulos, that they would lose interest in everything else if national elections were announced. Therefore he prefers that they take an interest in other countries' elections. As for the continuation of martial law, Papadopoulos insists that "it is a mere shadow. But men are restrained by this mere shadow more than they would...
...screams the Macy's ad, "are you distraught about the disappearance of the beautiful American knee?" The way to overcome masculine distress over lower hemlines seems to be seduction. "Just relax," the ad continues. "C'ose your eyes. Breathe deeply and think positively. Think of words like slinky . . . and slender . . . and smooth. Think of clingy . . . and close-fit. Think of shape. Think of soft. Think of feminine...