Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rousing rendition of the Choate school song. The exhausted Burger students quickly rejoin their new friends. Some make plans for future visits. Others go off for a game of basketball, a meal in the dining hall or a final look at the campus. Minicucci and Hofler try to relax and prepare for the drive back to the Bronx. They are already talking about next year's concerts and, as always, their hopes for the future of their students...
ARTFUL equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then you 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 this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
...functions at the capacity of a four-month-old. Like a rag doll, she can neither sit nor stand by herself: her trunk is too weak and her legs are too stiff. A therapist massages and bends the little girl's legs, trying to make her relax. Next year her foster mother will put Felicia in a special school full time in hopes that the child can at least learn how to feed herself...
...might expect an outgoing university president to take a little time out to savor his remaining days in office. To reflect on his years at the institution, perhaps. Or maybe just to relax. But not Derek...
...behavioral factors, including simply the habit of putting something into one's mouth. But experts increasingly believe physiological factors play the largest role. Nicotine, found in tobacco, speeds up physiological functions, especially the rate at which the body metabolizes food. "Though people will tell you they smoke to relax, in reality, they're all charged up," says psychologist Daniel Kirschenbaum of Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A smoker's heart rate, for instance, averages 84 beats a minute, compared with 72 beats for a nonsmoker. When smoking stops, metabolism slows down, food is burned more slowly and the pounds...