Word: relaxants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...testiness does not endear him to his players -or to anyone else, for that matter. There are some, even, who claim that his reputation as a tennis tactician is grossly inflated. "The only instructions we were ever given were 'Go for the lines' and 'Relax,'" says Lew Hoad, who also played on four of Hopman's Davis Cup squads...
...patients chest breathing to prepare them for the time when their abdominal muscles would help expel the baby from the uterus. He schooled his patients in effleurage, a simple massage of the lower abdomen that serves to lessen muscular tension during contractions. Most important, Lamaze taught women to relax while participating actively in labor...
...cities, and even hospitals where doctors are not Lamaze disciples admit to weaving some of his and Dr. Dick Read's teachings into their obstetrics. Just about all big-city hospitals allow the husbands to be with their wives during labor (a Lamaze precept; it helps to relax the mother), and the most diehard anti-naturalists among obstetricians now recognize the value of prenatal education and exercise...
...late supper. A car edges slowly along the curb, and both workers gaze intently trying to see the passengers in the light of the streetlamp. One finally speaks, "'s okay, they're the right color." And as the car of Negroes passes, the two white freedom workers relax...
...people." When he called the first meeting hardly anyone would speak up and the freedom worker had to talk himself hoarse. Now the local people have elected their own officers and run the meetings by themselves. Nearly everyone speaks, and the freedom worker can just listen and relax among friends...