Word: relax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amount of parkland can offset a tangle of ramps and roads the size of Boston Common. What person can relax, play or enjoy a park while thousand of cars circle above their head? No new housing can be built in the shadow of a colossal series of ramps and roads pooring soot and noise down on the land below. As Scheme Z opponent Gladys P. Gifford says, "You can't mitigate a monster...
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...
...UCLA professor of family medicine, is "that physicians aren't making the recommendations." Doctors often feel that mammograms are unnecessary for women who are not in a high-risk category. "Sometimes they'll say, 'You've had a couple of children and you've got no family history, so relax,' " explains Dr. Robert Smith of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Yet three out of four breast-cancer victims have no known risk factors, says Smith. No woman over 40 should consider herself safe. And certainly her doctor should know better...
Markell, who has owned Elsie's for 25 years, said he was eliminating the gameroom because he wanted to attract "the right kind of customers, the kind who'll come in and have a nice sandwich and relax...
...still can't relax. I developed such rigid habits in that place. But this afternoon I'm really happy. One of our group just telephoned and said Imad was granted a humanitarian visa by the U.S. We all told our embassies about him. He risked his life for us. And now he's free himself. What a marvelous piece of justice...