Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drank a good deal of whiskey, trying to relax," he begins, and that prescription is followed through the 1940s and '50s. Occasional grace notes occur, but hangovers and revulsion are usually the order of the day: "I feel sick, disgusted with myself, despairing and obscene. I have a drink to pull myself together at half past eleven and begin my serious drinking at half past four." And: "Evening comes or even noon and some combination of nervous tensions obscures my memories of what whiskey costs me in the way of physical and intellectual well-being. I could very easily destroy...
During Bunker's yoga classes in this same room, however, pressure is not the name of the game. In fact, the approximately 25 people enrolled in the 12 noon class are there specifically to avoid the cut-throat competition of the University. They simply want to relax...
According to the instructor, injuries are usually the result of too much tension. So the first few days of lessons, Brown has her students gradually slide down on the ice until they fall, to help them realize "they won't hurt themselves if they just relax...
Brown says that for her, ice skating is a way to relax. "It's a pretty good way to start the day once I get down [to Bright...
...really needed something to relax," Dooley said. "We have had so many one-goal games--against Brown, Princeton, Cornell, and Northeastern--that it was nice to relax a little bit." Crimson, 6-1 at Bright Hockey Center HARVARD 2-3-1--6 Yale...