Word: relaxants
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Artful Euivocqations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids 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 is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one might be droll enough...
...slow-moving Spain, change of any kind is rare and reluctant. Yet, almost imperceptibly the regime is beginning to relax its iron grip on society. Since his appointment as Franco's Information Minister last July, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 40, has boosted the daily ration of radio news from four to 18 broadcasts a day and for the first time allowed Spanish listeners a comparatively broad sampling of world events...
...Relax and look up the word reverend in Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). You and your Protestant clergymen are hopelessly behind the times. The word reverend has graduated to the category of a noun, "rev'er-end-n-s: a member of the clergy: minister, priest, pastor . . . (saw the Reverend walking down the road)." Call me Reverend...
...overthrown in October, and now Premier-designate, Pompidou is probably closer to the President than any other minister. He was a schoolteacher and Resistance fighter before joining De Gaulle as a consultant on education in 1944, later became director of the Rothschild bank. De Gaulle, who does not relax easily, is soothed by Pompidou's roguish self-assurance, and even permitted him to help edit his Memoirs. A middle-road liberal, Pompidou is the likeliest choice to head the Gaullist party after De Gaulle leaves the scene...
...freshman room assignment at both Radcliffe and Harvard, the working theory seems to be that freshman roommates need not be soulmates or confidantes of a lifetime, but only "chums" in the current colloquial sense of the term. "The rooming situation should be one in which a student can relax," Jewett concluded, "not one in which he must be converted or educated...