Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME. July 11), Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson gazed innocently up from his National Naval Medical Center bed and told doctors of his abiding love for hillbilly music. If he could just have a radio to listen to the comin'-round-the-mountaineers, Johnson hinted, it would help relax him. The doctors considered and agreed. Johnson got his radio, and was soon listening to every news broadcast and political commentator that he could reach on the dial. There are few things that he loathes more than hillbilly music...
...minutes later: "How'm I doin'? I want the truth now." Replied a voice from the King Bacardi: "You've caught 1½ miles in the last 20 minutes." A little later Thomas called out: "You fellas got nothing to worry about. Sit back and relax...
Proper Pitch. This winter Tony got back in form when he and Vic Seixas teamed up to take the Davis Cup. Only twice after that, as he played the international amateur-tennis circuit, did Tony relax and lose. When he reached Paris last month to defend his French title, he was at his peak. He won easily...
...dozen beer drinkers. Together, Pabst and Schlitz have spent $35 million for new West Coast breweries to match, the $25 million plant Anheuser-Busch opened last year in Los Angeles. Throughout the industry, every brewery is scrambling to fortify its market against the national giants. No one dares relax...
...propositions. The first is that war, which now means thermonuclear war, is impossible. The second is that while the great powers must not wage war, they cannot now make the concessions. The third proposition is that, unable to fight and unable to settle, they must nevertheless find ways to relax the. most severe and dangerous of the tensions. Under the constraints of the military stalemate, all the principal powers are impelled to stay more or less where they are now, to live with their differences, hoping somehow to outgrow them or to outlive them...