Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surgery Uses It. Today purified natural forms of curare and also synthetic varieties are available to medicine. Unlike the Indians' brews, they do not vary in strength from batch to batch. Since their effects are precisely measurable and predictable, surgeons use them to relax muscles by blocking the transmission of impulses from nerves, but stopping well short of the Indians' desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal...
...began a leisurely round-the-world vacation in June with his wife and six children, even trim, tireless Bill Graham felt like shedding the cares of business for a relaxing look at exotic sights. But he could not relax as he saw the grinding poverty and encountered the stifling state control and the huge capital shortage that pervades Asia. "Everybody seemed to be sitting around without hope. Nobody seemed to know about free enterprise and what made it click...
...printmakers, awed his contemporaries with his exotic, cluttered studios, fez-topped black servants, white wolfhounds and mighty oaths ("My God! I'd rather go to Europe than to Heaven!"). His styles became as varied as his enthusiasms, but in his summer house in Southampton he allowed himself to relax, painted the windswept Shinnecock Hills, and the shore dotted with parasoled ladies, in glowing, impressionist colors as pure as the salt air and clean as fresh linen...
...Watkins case. Americans need a new set of definitions on such matters as what is disloyalty and what is un-Americanism (the latter probably undefinable). I look for your Supreme Court to provide these badly needed definitions. The U.S. has little to fear from "creeping liberalism." Sit back, relax, enjoy it. A little freedom never hurt anyone. Perhaps, after all, agonizing reappraisals, like charity, should begin at home...
...areas, e.g., Massachusetts' Cape Cod, announced that he will spend a work-play holiday at Newport, R.I.* "if and when" the House of Representatives declares a recess (leaving the Senate to grind on with civil rights). Sold on Newport by Naval Aide Captain Evan P. Aurand, Ike will relax at Marine-guarded, 92-acre Coaster's Harbor Island, a secluded U.S. Navy installation (home of the Naval War College and a naval training station) hard by the lush Rhode Island summer colony, will stay in the twelve-room stone-and-brick quarters of the base commander. Prime assets...