Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...synagogue; he still wears his handmade trunks in every fight, even when TV's demand for a readily identifiable black or white pair means putting other trunks on top of them. Now there are no outstanding challengers to bother him. Back in Paris, he will have time to relax and enjoy his $50,000 purse. His fans will find him with Cherif Hamia and the rest of les durs (the tough guys), rolling down the boulevards resplendent in the turtleneck sweater, tight, pointed shoes and busted nose that are the cachet of his trade...
Poison to Relax. This done, Bovet switched to the mechanism by which curare paralyzes the muscles. It took him eight years to find the essential ingredients in the impure mixtures of Indian arrow poisons: along the way he synthesized 400 compounds which produced some of curare's effects in one degree or another. His research brought out the usefulness of succinylcholine. a long-neglected curare-like compound now widely employed as a muscle relaxant in major surgery on the chest and abdomen...
...furious, astonished. Even victorious France and Britain were maintaining stiff controls to ration their meager austerity. From existing legal supplies each West German could expect to get one pair of shorts every 18 years, one pair of socks every 29 years, a suit every 98 years. "How dare you relax our rationing system when you have a shortage of goods?" raged one officer. Replied Erhard jubilantly: "I have not relaxed rationing; I have abolished it." To his countrymen he proclaimed: "The only ration ticket now is the mark." He asked for an interview with U.S. General Lucius Clay. "Herr Erhard...
...during the war, Ike grabbed every chance last week amid conferences and decisions to relax momentarily but wholly, to clear his mind, to catch up on routine. He followed the World Series-"one of the finest series in modern times." He took in his first football game since entering the White House, cheered loudly for the losers as the new U.S. Air Force Academy went down 20-0 to George Washington University. He played a round of golf with old Army friends, including retired Lieut. General Floyd Parks, who shot a 155-yd. hole in one with...
...where you can daily bask in the results of your efforts. The CRIMSON offers challenge enough to produce people like James Bryant Conant '14 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, both presidents of the CRIMSON, who went on to become presidents of other worthwhile organizations. But one can also relax at the CRIMSON'S social functions...