Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Annan's privacy, though, is receding fast. He sometimes goes for early morning walks outside the Secretary-General's Manhattan residence, but only accompanied by two U.N. bodyguards and occasionally a third who scouts the road for gawkers. To relax, he listens to jazz, takes walks in the country and indulges in a daily cigar. But his consuming passion is his wife, Nane, a lawyer and accomplished painter and the niece of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who rescued thousands of Jews from the Nazis during World War II. "They've forged a real partnership," says their friend, author Kati Marton...
...Carol Heiss, proved only that champions are formed in the most variable of circumstances. Lipinski and Kwan stuck to completely different schedules at Nagano, setting off rampant speculation about whose off-ice routine would triumph. Journalists handicapped the event in favor of Lipinski because she was so carefree and relaxed. She was all over the Olympic village, taking to dorm life faster than a pre-frosh. She celebrated Picabo Street's super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf Shack (one entry of Tara's Diary had six exclamation points in 11 sentences) and made stickers...
Hong Kong, in the meantime, had begun to relax. From August into November, nothing happened. No new cases appeared. In postmortems on the first case, researchers congratulated themselves on how well the global flu-surveillance system had worked. Some even suggested that it worked too well, that the avian flu had been discovered only because the surveillance network was looking for such events and that isolated bird-to-human infections had probably happened before and gone undetected...
...relax since we lost to them last time, and we can look forward to playing them," Teaford said. "Before, they were hunting us, so now it's our turn...
...likes to say. On the whole, we can imagine a bevy of writers trotting out clever anecdotes about caviar parties of making up involved historical "episodes" without anything more worthwhile to say. I do not think we have to be worried just yet, however. The economy is bound to relax a bit, the contracts should come down a few hundred thousand dollars, and the writers will get back to grumbling about mercenary businessman and slow-witted bourgeois types in suburban colonials...