Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could be entirely covered with skin flaps to guard against infection. Doctors had pumped half a dozen antibiotics into Rodney, using different combinations to prevent the growth of a resistant strain of germs. They were relieved last week when he got over a mouth infection. But they would not relax until Rodney had another operation to cover his brain...
...point, yes, they reply. Unreasonable and unfounded fear of labor pains undoubtedly makes the pains worse, so it is a good thing to get rid of the fear. The "natural childbirth" training prescribed for pregnant women by Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read helps to relax the patients, the Baltimoreans concede. They also grant that, as practiced by well-drilled specialists in the U.S., the method may do no great harm...
...while, life in the Krogh empire is delightfully plush. Anthony becomes Krogh's bodyguard, teaches his joyless boss how to relax, begins an affair on the side with an English lady tourist, and picks up extra change by funneling news about Krogh to a journalist. But when Anthony discovers that Krogh is swindling half the world, he rebels: he is not "unscrupulous enough to be successful." Suddenly dangerous, Anthony is casually destroyed by one of Krogh's assistants...
Yeager was honored guest at a holiday luncheon sponsored by the club. Richard H. Amberg '33, president, made the presentation, and said: "We hope you will sit back and relax in this rocker the next time you get a call to play against Harvard...
...biggest packing plant. His first brush with the Government was over a rigid Agriculture Department ruling on how much arsenic spray could be left on apples and pears put on sale. Cardiff, arguing for more arsenic, led a five-year fight to get the Agriculture Department to relax the regulation, and finally won. Later, in four separate cases, Food & Drug Administration inspectors seized a shipment of Cardiff apples on the ground that they were contaminated. In each case, Cardiff fought through the courts, and won. One reason for his success was that Ira Cardiff knows as much about the Food...