Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferre said that to pray correctly one must relax, indulge in recollection, meditate in silence, and pray for restoration. He advocated a revival of the family altar, which gives the growing child a feeling of security...
...back with an adverse report. The problem of housing and protecting the President in unfamiliar surroundings and setting up adequate communications raised all sorts of complications. Besides, local politicians had already gotten scent of the enterprise and would clamor for the President's ear wherever he decided to relax. Harry Truman listened, then wearily agreed to postpone the trip. But he admitted at last that he needed rest-except for two quick trips to Missouri, he had taken the heavy hammering of Washington for eight straight months...
About all Texas Tom Connally had to do last week was to relax contentedly at the center of his big committee table and referee what had become almost exclusively a G.O.P. fight. In the epilogue to the late Great Debate, Republican had been set against Republican. The specific question: the Wherry resolution to bar sending troops to Europe without congressional approval...
...office, Ridgway could relax. He likes small dinner parties, has a reputation as a conversationalist, compounds drinks with a generous hand...
...risen from an obscure position as a chartered accountant in Glasgow to captain of industry (scrap-metal tycoon, oxygen-tank manufacturer). He owned, among other properties, five farms in Australia and one in Rhodesia, a mansion in London's Mayfair. Known as a tough taskmaster, Hardie likes to relax with a good cigar, slips away as often as he can for a day's hunting or fishing. His hand is as deft with a rod as with turning a handsome profit. Winston Churchill dubbed him "one of these rare birds, the millionaire Socialist ... a successful businessman, a past...