Word: relaxation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happened next could have happened only in Philadelphia, and only to the Phillies. As the bone-weary team members deplaned, the waiting crowd set up a cheer. Hand-lettered signs bloomed: "WHO SAID IT COULDN'T BE DONE?" "RELAX, FELLAS-YOU'RE HOME NOW." A five-man band struck up Take Me Out to the Ball Game, and sturdy fans in the welcoming committee hoisted Manager Gene Mauch on their shoulders and carried him off at the head of a triumphant procession. "It's unbelievable," said Mauch, tears rolling down his cheeks...
...still everywhere. You sit in a movie house watching a film, and suddenly the lights go on and you wait while the Vopos walk down the aisle looking everyone over. You wonder who they are after. When they motion to someone to get up and go with them, you relax. But the next time it could be you ... I couldn't take that any more...
...combat the cocktail hour, the WCTU is propagandizing for the "hour of social freedom," at which men and women may relax over beverages such as Top o' the Mornin' Punch (5 cups pineapple juice, 1 cup lemon juice, 3 cups water, 1 qt. ginger ale and 3 pts. lime sherbet), or the Pick-Me-Up (6 tbs. of chocolate syrup, 2 eggs. 2 cups fresh milk, serve in a frosted glass...
...Premier Amintore Fanfani has long yearned to take a crack at one of the most exasperating tasks of modern diplomacy: talking to Nikita Khrushchev. "He's hypnotized by the idea," said a friend. "He hopes that somehow he might bring back a great concession from Russia which will relax international tension." Last month Fanfani finally got his invitation. Hearing no nays from the Vatican, from his Western allies or from his Christian Democratic political supporters at home, last week he flew to Moscow...
...occupied their entire college career were finally being completed: construction on the MTA, the bridge, and the other structures was finished by the spring of 1911. The administrative changes which occupied the inauguration of a new University president were generally completed by this final year, and the seniors could relax in the secure atmosphere. Only the plans for a new Germanic museum and an unusually successful season of sports offered new topics of conversation...