Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the kids on the sandlots remember when baseball was a summer sport. After six months of shagging flies, a ballplayer is entitled to relax. But last fall, when the N.Y. Giants' spectacular center fielder, Willie Mays, asked for permission to play winter ball in Puerto Rico, the Giants readily agreed. If the Most Valuable Player in the National League thought that he needed the practice, why argue? Besides, it was good publicity...
Headley, on the other hand, is definitely going ahead next year with a plan to convert a large suite in Leverett into a room for various student staff meetings and concentration dinners. The move is designed, he said, to free the Junior Common Room for students to relax and do casual reading...
...worrywart reporters covering President Eisenhower's holiday at the Augusta National Golf Club last week began to get on Press Secretary James C. Hagerty's nerves. Hagerty finally handed out lapel buttons reading "Relax." That was hard for the reporters to do, and even harder for Dwight Eisenhower. Most of his Georgia vacation was spent working, worrying and waiting...
Dedijer failed to appreciate what his hero, Marshal Tito, and the harder Communist heads understood instinctively, that a totalitarian regime can relax only in limited and selective ways, or invite its own downfall...
...paused at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel long enough to receive the Salvation Army's seventh annual citation for his "boundless spirit and unfailing faith." Then, after announcing that he is off to Europe in March for a six-month preaching tour, he headed for Georgia to relax for three days at Augusta's National Golf Club, a favorite course of President Eisenhower. Asked if he planned to play a round with Ike, Graham, whose scores hover in the so-so 90s, laughed and said: "I don't play that good a game." Meanwhile, Hollywood...