Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctors used to think they could relax about hepatitis after the end of a major war. "Infectious jaundice" (as it was commonly called from its most obvious symptom) was regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...
...true, then, that in the bowels of this crazy indirect-lighted monolith, one can relax, and forget the pressures of the Victorian reality that lies in waiting outside the big glass doors. Indeed, some of the hardier lads can even, I know not how, manage to catch a little sleep beneath the soft lights, amid the soothing rustle of encyclopedia pages...
...Word for It. Something, in fact, was happening to the cold war, but no one had yet found the right word or phrase for it. Some called it an easement, others, a thaw. Many, including Prime Minister Churchill and Pravda editorial writers, preferred to speak of "relaxation of tension." The Italians talked of distensionse. No phrase yet minted combines both the reality and the illusion of the moment: the reality of the new Russian regime's need to relax tension, and the Communists' manipulation of this need. Reality and illusion have a rendezvous date: Jan. 25 in Berlin...
...Neuromuscular television" was the name given by Chicago's Dr. Edmund Jacobson to a gadget for helping heart patients to relax. The tension in a patient's muscles and nerves is projected on a screen so that he can see the effect of his efforts to relax...
...trips. From Haiti, she borrowed a Mother Hubbard-style dress; from the fishermen of Brittany, a pullover sweater; from Japan, a straight-line coat modeled after a judo wrestler's dressing gown. Designer Schnurer got some of her best ideas from Ireland. Says she: "I decided just to relax when I got there and go to the races. The first things I saw were the most gorgeous satin jockey coats in the most wonderful colors you've ever seen. I adopted them. Then I went to the pawn shops. I got some of the most marvelous heavy, cable...