Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There it remained at week's end. The students, injured in pride and empty of pocket, prepared to climb El Plomo in search of more buried treasure. But Dr. Fuenzalida had no chance to relax among his stuffed animals. At the other end of town, the director of the National Historical Museum plunged into the row, loudly proclaiming: "That mummy, or whatever it is, should be in this museum and nowhere else! The law says that everything pertaining to Chilean man belongs here." The battle of the body, it seemed, was not yet over...
...Tadpole Society and a group calling themselves the Friends of Harvard Tradition appeared momentarily on the Winthrop scene, but vanished as quickly as they had come. The house has a minimum of such groups. Generally students are delighted to eat, sleep, and relax within the walls of Standish and Gore halls and go outside for other amusements...
...green living room, still only half-furnished, the Senator sank tiredly into a big red chair, but the time to relax was not yet. He waved toward a television set facing him. As Joe gave directions, the reporter flipped from channel to channel until he found a newscast. Again Joe heard the statement put out a few hours before at the White House by his latest victim. Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens, with the "100% approval" of the President of the U.S. The Senator heard his own brash characterization of the Stevens statement as "completely false." He waved...
Says Barthel: "I do not run to set records; I run to win meets. I also run to relax from studying." After the race, Barthel headed back to Harvard, leaving track fans more convinced than ever that he will break Dodds's record, and others, when he has to, to win a meet...
...herd a gang of 40 delinquents off to a soup kitchen instead of jail. There each boy got a meal, a pair of shoes, some clothes the judge had scrounged. Then they talked, not about crime or war, but about sports, music, dancing and books. The boys began to relax. They came back for more talk night after night...