Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Islands, and, ignoring Tahoe's sparkling waters, lackeys gassed up a swimming pool by spiking it with champagne. Mrs. Gillilan's newly rich bridegroom, Ray, 60, wouldn't say what the party cost (estimate: $30,000). But the gala seemed just what Bobo needed to relax after her six weeks of idle seclusion in Reno...
...complained that "the average city dweller wants to be able to turn sleep on and off like a tap." He advocated abandoning bromides entirely because they are useless for insomnia, and urged the prescribing of barbiturates only sparingly and for short times-while the patient is being taught to relax and not to lie awake worrying about when he will get to sleep...
...been more successful in the science of designing golf courses than Robert Trent Jones, 48. A onetime tournament player (until ulcers forced him to relax) and something of an expert in surveying, hydraulics, horticulture and agronomy, Landscape Architect Jones has quietly masterminded a revolution in the design of golf courses. Before he came on the scene, most American courses were built on the "penal principle." Hazards were everywhere, to punish any player whose shots strayed from the straight & narrow...
...Madrid to relax at the bullfights, Author Ernest Hemingway claimed that his two plane crashes in Africa (TIME, Feb. 1) had come closer to killing him than anyone, including indestructible Poppa himself, suspected at the time. A ship's doctor, on the voyage from Africa to Italy, examined Hemingway, who complained of aches and pains, and, as Poppa fancifully recalled the diagnosis, spotted 1) three compressed vertebrae, 2) a ruptured kidney and liver, 3) a collapsed intestine, 4) a brain concussion, 5) partial blindness, 6) bad scalp burns. Moreover, before sailing from Mombasa, Poppa had rushed off into...
...school of anthropologists argues that the highest forms of civilization must develop in temperate climates. If a country is too cold, they say, its people have to struggle too hard just to stay alive. If it is too hot, they relax into slow-moving lassitude. Chief exponent of this theory was Yale's Professor Ellsworth Huntington, who lived in New Haven, Conn. He decided that the climate of Connecticut is ideal for culture...