Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Bruce Munro has effectively straightened out his previously unpredictable attack and Lewis, Don Dawidoff, and Coburn turned in their best effort this year. The strong attack caused the defense to relax, however, and goalie Dick Mackinnin saw eight scores flash into the nets...
With time and money to relax, Rocky found that he enjoyed being a family man. Last week, after breaking the news to his manager, Al Weill, he announced that he was going to quit the ring while he still had his title and his health. He is the only heavyweight champion ever to retire without a defeat on his record...
...counts. If the free world is, as it seems, bound to accept a prolonged state of coexistence with the Soviet Union, healthier commercial intercourse between East and West will lead to a less tense and precipitous atmosphere. Rehabilitated US-USSR trade would also allow other non-Soviet nations to relax their trade relations with the Soviet bloc, and could provide them with new markets free of the prohibitive dollar-gap difficulty...
...doctor to relax in the least degree his efforts to maintain life means that the question of when to stop fighting will arise to plague him every time he undertakes the care of an incurable cancer patient ... Where can anyone, no matter how wise, draw the line?" There is always the chance that "spontaneous remission," a rare inexplicable halt to tumor growth, may restore the cancer patient to health. Moreover, says Cameron, the possibility always exists of a timely cure for the patient's case of cancer. "The humane course is to hold on to such a hope, slender...
...concept that lies behind the Ivy Group as a whole--"that players...be permitted to enjoy the game as participants in a form of recreational competition rather than as professional performers in public spectacles." But recently the Student Councils at Cornell, Brown, and Harvard have asked that the League relax the ban against post-season participation...