Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Here's why: Beta-blockers counteract the body's fight-or-flight reactions to stress. More specifically, the drugs block the so-called beta-adrenergic receptors--molecules, found in muscles, that respond to surges of adrenaline. The beta-blockers thus relax the heart, causing it to beat more slowly. This seems like the last thing you would want to do for someone whose heart isn't pumping much blood in the first place...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...Orioles and the Cuban National team. One game would take place in Cuba, a second at Camden Yards. While Cuban officials are reportedly "skeptical" that the meeting will lead to any real diplomacy, there have been signs in the past that Castro, still a huge fan, is willing to relax his policies when it comes to baseball: Last year when the New York Yankees won the World Series, he allowed the family of Cuban defector Orlando (El Duque) Hernandez to travel to New York City for the team's ticker-tape parade...
Byerly Hall officials spent 10- to 12-hour dayssix days a week for more than two months. Havingsifted through 4,588 early action applications,admissions officers were able to relax thisweekend "without feeling guilty," Evans said...
...either event, as they've said in another, better film, tomorrow is another day, and the president has several big ones coming up. So perhaps the best course is to kick back on Air Force One, relax, suspend disbelief, and take in the spectacle of Paul Newman as an Israeli freedom fighter in Otto Preminger's story of the founding of Israel, "Exodus". Time enough tomorrow to lobby. As the pharaoh says, "So let it be written. So let it be done...