Word: relax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rigid posture on the monitor for 15 minutes, one patient recalled a childhood fear: that she would be abandoned if she did not behave. That was the reason for her exaggerated self-control as an adult. Aware that the fear was no longer realistic, she became able to relax and behave more spontaneously...
...cool in the police car, and the cops, although jittery, relax when they see that their passenger is unarmed. They have their own stories to tell, of new ambush attacks, and of strong desires for shotguns to repel something they call the Black Liberation Army. But after they listen to their passenger's story, there is a quiet in the car, and there is no further attempt to educate the new Rip Van Winkle. There is no attempt to go to the station. Rip is, suddenly, a free man all over again, and stuttering, he tries to find praise...
Section 18 started to relax during the third stanza as it appeared that the Crimson would handle the Green easily, But Harvard's icemen relaxed too, and a defensive lapse lost the puck to Dartmouth's Howie Hampton, who shot past a screened Bertagna for the first Dartmouth score...
...year-old Gianni, jet-setting celebrity and voluble charmer, is characteristically energetic and impatient. By contrast, Umberto so detests partygoing that friends say his marriage to Antonella Piaggio, whose family makes Vespa motor scooters, broke up three years ago partly because of her active social life. To relax, Umberto spends weekends sailing off the Sardinian coast, where he keeps a home, often with Girl Friend Allegra Caracciolo di Castagneto, a first cousin of Gianni's wife...
While most Harvard athletes were breaking for exams before returning to competition in January, several Crimson trackmen traveled to the Philadelphia Track Classic Friday night, and two individuals and a relax placed at the meet...