Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips. The few crewmen who slept managed little more than brief dozes ("You can't relax," said one crewman. "Too many things on your mind...
...Decided, in line with the Administration's determination to aid Iron Curtain countries seeking economic independence from Moscow, to relax restrictions on exports to Poland, thus allow the Gomulka government to buy surplus U.S. farm products for dollars at prevailing world market prices...
...subjected to surgery to remove part of the thyroid gland. This can now be done by simply swigging an "atomic cocktail" of radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve to relax an otherwise apprehensive person, it would be unwise to prohibit them." But the patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients...
...said that he could not count on any help along those lines from the Republican Party; any such attempt would mean a split with his party, open warfare with Senate Minority Leader William Knowland. Well, asked Nehru, why doesn't the U.S. at least relax its trade embargoes with Red China? Patiently the President explained that until Peking proves itself a more acceptable member of the international community, he has no intention of recommending such action...
...real world, he advises his fellow Catholics to relax a little. Says Kerr: "It is perfectly possible for a society to be prudently, scrupulously self-protective-and still be sick. Bundling up won't do the job all by itself; exercise is essential. As Catholics, we've been doing a lot of bundling up and taking very little exercise...