Word: relax
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toward the evening of Sunday, I had given them satisfaction. They gave me a glass of water, a bit of bread which I could not eat, and altered their bearing ... I was given a cigarette, and time to relax and control my trembling-hands, feet, teeth, so that I could write down what I had told them...
Since all this is a moral problem, said Murdock, he thought that his views should be dealt with by society's moral leaders, the clergy. "No doubt it seems absurd to think of the clergy as leading a movement to relax a standard of sexual morality ... I remind you, however, that it was the Protestant clergy who brought about the first great sexual reform of modern times by attacking and reversing the restrictive taboo of ecclesiastical celibacy. There is no inherent reason why they could not lead a second reform of equal magnitude and importance, especially with the cooperation...
After swapping the lead throughout the game, Dartmouth, which beat Cornell, appeared to have another upset in hand when in the last five second reserve forward John McDonald, tied it up on a foul shot. But then the Green seemed to relax in anticipation of an over-time...
...house of abstract art or to ride the roller coaster of expressionism. The mirrored walls and revolving floors of abstraction were clearly better suited to professionals who like doing things the hard way, and the violent expression of emotions would never do for people who painted to relax...