Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...List: Mom let me unpack the athletic supporter after we received the third edition of The List, which made distinctions between male and female items. Only on the day of my departure, when we made a mad dash to CVS for anti-fungal powder, did she sit back, relax a little and begin to let her daughter...
Masters, tutors and proctors instead need to convey a new message: It is a virtuous and valiant choice to relax, socialize and party while staying sober, and (for those of us under 21) while following the law. Convincing students to change their attitude toward alcohol will take more thoughtful and more caring leadership from University Hall than that evidenced by a mass-produced letter...
...afford to relax his guard on AIDS. Still, it's a relief to most patients, and to their physicians, just to have a future to worry about. "We have been burned so many times that most doctors didn't want to be optimistic," says New York City's Grossman. Even if the improvements generated by the new drugs turn out to be short-lived, he and other clinicians now have reason to believe they will one day win the war on AIDS. "The fact that we can do it once," he says, "means that we can do it again...
...less ambitious context this combination of inventive slackness and intellectual slipperiness would not much matter. We could simply relax and enjoy a rattling good yarn--Braveheart without the kilts, Viva Zapata! without the sombreros--by a director who is shot for shot and scene for scene a masterly craftsman. But Neil Jordan, who is of course Irish, claims this is "an examination of conscience." He is also volubly aware that the culture of violence that has haunted his country's history was embodied by Collins and his cohorts. Jordan therefore owes to the present, as well as to the past...
...gives us a chance to relax and socialize with other debaters," added Yale senior Charles Duhigg, King's debate partner...