Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time to Change. Under these conditions, Britain could hardly relax trade or currency restrictions. Since Britain was the banker for the sterling bloc, it was unlikely that other nations in the bloc could relax their restrictions. Despite these facts, the International Monetary Fund (with a hefty nudge from the U.S.) last week decided to keep stiff limitations on the use of its $8 billion; loans would be made only to nations which make an effort to loosen restrictions...
...trouble with most people, says Psychiatrist David H. Fink of Beverly Hills, is that they just can't relax properly. "In my experience-and it's a lot of experience-I have found that the quickest way to help people learn to manage their emotional patterns easily is to teach them to relax their muscles at will." Since 1943, a quarter of a million people have bought Dr. Fink's bestselling Release from Nervous Tension to find out how to do it. Meanwhile, Dr. Fink has worked out a new wrinkle...
...years, he has been dosing his own, patients with such droning incantations as, "Arms, relax . . . shoulders, relax . . . eyelids, heavy," etc. It seemed to help, but Dr. Fink decided that it would help even more if the patient didn't have to put up with the physician in the same room. He made a tape recording of his professional drone. The result was so relaxing that he went to a Hollywood studio, made a recording as therapeutically smooth as possible: organ music, plus such reiterated crooning as "Going to sleep . . . Completely relaxed . . . Arms and legs are heavy, heavy . . . Eyelids feeling...
...improbable if we don't make mistakes--if we don't relax our military effort and our work towards Atlantic Union or if we don't become provocative out of too great fear." According to Kohn, the Cold War won't last too long, "perhaps ten or 15 years...
Yvonne and Desvillettes agreed, but a few days later they left together for an inspection tour of a municipal summer camp. When they got home, Jean angrily confronted the mayor, demanding satisfaction of his honor-or at least his visa. The mayor told him to relax. "Such things," said Little Napoleon, "so often happen in the party." Jean pulled out a pistol and shot him dead. Later he explained what had driven him to the deed: "I was crazy. I couldn't sleep. I conducted the Metro like a sleepwalker...