Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Personality: A man of slight build with thinning brown hair, slumps deep in a chair at political conferences, thinks before he speaks, and speaks softly, briefly and to the point. Married to Doris McCarter, a onetime Texas Democrat. Likes to relax at home with his four children: Joan, 16; Anne, 14; Tom, 12 (named for a maternal grandfather, not for Dewey); Jim, 9. They live in a comfortable old house near Manhattan's Gramercy Park. In religion, a Methodist. For recreation likes dancing, baseball (a Yankee fan), and ranching vacations in Arizona...
...religion, politics, music, art, football, yoga-anything . . . Mark even knows how to get every place he's going . . . I've driven miles and miles in the wrong direction, all the time urging him to stop and inquire the way and he all the time barking, 'Relax, damn it. I know where I'm going. Remember, you're a guest in this...
...obvious presidential qualifications was his ability to relax easily into relaxing routine. He got to bed every night-after a round of bridge-between 10 and 11 o'clock. He slept solidly until around 8 o'clock the next morning. He was eating man-sized meals (and letting others do the cooking), yet keeping his weight down with exercise. In mornings, at noon and in the evenings, he bantered and romped with his grandchildren, Dwight David, 4, and Anne...
...necessary if the free world is to preserve its "right to live." But Churchill's warning was less dramatic than his optimistic forecast, and in war-weary Europe, his speech was taken to mean what too many Europeans wanted it to mean: that the time has come to relax...
...week's end the governments of India and Pakistan took an appalled look at the chaos they had created out of red tape. Prime Minister Nehru flew to the scene to see for himself. Then the Indian and Pakistan governments got together, decided to relax the new passport regulations for 15 days. It was a breathing space. No one was optimistic enough to think that in so short a time the masses of India and Pakistan could be made to understand the meaning of that mystery of modern travel, a passport visa...