Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make electric-shock treatment quicker and safer, the University of Texas' Dr. Neville Murray recommended giving the patients succinylcholine (instead of curare) to relax their muscles, and no barbiturates. The whole job can be done in 80 seconds, he reported; patients need little restraint (one attendant is ample) and do not hurt themselves. Most can soon walk back to their rooms...
...Chateau de la Muette, onetime Parisian home of the Rothschilds and now, appropriately enough, the counting-house of Europe, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard A. ("Rab") Butler gave his Continental colleagues the best financial news this year. Britain, he said, will relax trade restrictions to allow another $90 million worth of imports from Western Europe. British tourists will henceforth be allowed to take abroad ?40 ($112) apiece instead of the ?25 ($70) permitted before. "The United Kingdom," Butler told his fellow members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation, "is determined to play the part...
...have not built their suburban lots large enough. In an ever-changing industry operating at a helter-skelter pace this lack of planning represents one of the crying needs of the retail trade. The business has never had and may never have the chance to catch up with itself, relax, and plan...
Jeffries was far from eager; he had quit training, was long past his peak and weighed 285 Ibs. But he was hounded endlessly, both by Promoter Tex Rickard and the public. He went to Europe to relax and was startled one day when Britain's King Edward VII stepped out of a shop in Carlsbad and accosted him. The King, who had been picking out silver foxes for a lady friend, wanted to know when he would beat Johnson. Jeffries came home, and on Oct. 29, 1909 signed to fight Li'l Arthur 45 rounds...
Nevertheless, the "boys" and their readers could not quite relax. There was no telling when a two-headed, squirrel-headed whale of a news story would come spouting out of that dry hole...