Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gnashing or grinding the teeth under nervous tension is "tooth doodling" to Columbia University's Dr. Lewis Fox, and, he reported, it does serious damage to both teeth and gums. His advice: learn to relax, with "lips together, teeth apart...
...return? Nehru & Co. expressed great pleasure at the trade pact's preamble, to wit: respect for each other's "territorial integrity" and "noninterference" in each other's domestic affairs. Nehru expected that Red China would thereby relax its border pressure, and Indians happily believe him. "Another step to consolidate our friendship with China," said the Indian Express. "A triumph of diplomacy," glowed the Hindustan Times...
After 41½ hours and eight recesses, Pat McGinnis could finally relax; he had won. The final vote: McGinnis, 488,939 proxies and eleven directors; Dumaine, 481,302 proxies and only ten directors, including himself. Without a word, Buck Dumaine turned and left the room. Said McGinnis with a happy sigh: "I'm weary...
After a few more minutes in the committee's chilly atmosphere, Stassen abruptly stood up, packed up his charts and went back downtown to his office. If he had stuck to the plain fact that the agreement to relax controls on East-West trade was a necessary concession to the British and French, who are being hard-pressed by the U.S. diplomacy on the political front, the Senators would probably have understood him better. But when he implied that the new trade might soften the heart of Communism-i.e., that Russia makes guns only because...
Prince Valiant, in short, is all a small boy could ask for. His parents might as well relax and enjoy...