Word: relaxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after day, practically without vacations, he carries on the pace. By nightfall his nerves are in knots. Formerly he used to take a few drinks of straight whiskey in order to relax. Nowadays his friends have persuaded him to substitute Scotch highballs as easier on the stomach. The liquor serves no purpose except to relax him. Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when...
Entomologist Orlando S. Bare of Nebraska Agricultural College last week warned farmers in his State not to relax their poison campaign, or they would suffer a double penalty: continued heavy damage to this year's corn crop, and a heavy deposit of eggs to menace next year's. Most of the 462 carloads of Federal poison shipped in had been used up, however, and many farmers in desperation were paying from their own pockets for bait bought from private dealers. In Colorado, an anti-grasshopper council was organized by the State agriculture extension director. In Arizona, a State...
...followed, came near being the last. Forced by decrepit freighters to crawl along at eight knots, they lost their best defense against U-boats: speed and zigzagging. A submarine needed only 15 seconds to let go with a "tin fish." Tales about previous submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing...
Preacher Lee continued through the night, shouting into the microphone when he retired to the vestry to change his clothing, attend to needs of nature, shave, relax on the rubdown table. Some 200 worshipers stuck it out with him all that night...
...foreground appears the bronze gate giving access to the enclosure reserved for counsel. In their favorite and ill-assorted chairs, the Justices relax in characteristic attitudes. At the left Justice Roberts, whose recent swing to the liberals has resulted in a series of decisions upholding the New Deal, pays close attention to the white-haired attorney (centre) arguing before the Court. Next comes conservative Justice Butler, hunched in his little chair studying a document. Liberal Justice Brandeis, 80, most ancient member of the Court, looks gauntly on. Conservative Justice Van Devanter, hearing one of his last cases, has his fingers...