Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was a foreign aid bill amendment to relax the ironclad restrictions of the 1951 Battle Act, which ties the President's hands on aid to Communist countries. Sponsored by Massachusetts' Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the amendment authorized the President to extend economic aid to captive Communist countries if he believed that it would help loosen the bonds of "Sino-Soviet domination." It was practically an Administrative proposal: Secretary of State John Foster Dulles publicly endorsed...
...both. F. dumps garbage, slops and contents of wastepaper baskets; hauls water, splits small wood and brings logs and small wood into cabin for day's fires. Fills kerosene lamps, etc. J. dusts and sweeps, polishes tables, makes beds, replaces burned candles, etc. F. shaves and then both relax. J. does a crossword puzzle and F. makes "log" notes and checks on birds seen during morning...
...been said that the only way for the U.S. to win the Cold War is by continuing it. Certainly, there seems little hope that the Kremlin will relax its antagonism to the West. Under these conditions, the U.S. could gain little from a summit conference without either making broad concessions to the U.S.S.R. or agreeing to meaningless generalizations which might hamstring American policy in the future. The Government will have to weigh the alternatives and choose its ground; there is nothing to be gained from drifting with the current...
...months Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly...
...North Carolina State, went to the U.S. Military Academy in 1943, built for his boss. Earl ("Red"') Blaik, the impenetrable Army line of the Blanchard-Davis era. Once asked for a statement of his philosophy, Ulcer Victim Hickman said: "When I work, I work hard; when I relax, I rest loose; and when I begin to worry, I fall fast asleep...