Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kissinger's sound African policy might have cost Ford some votes and that there are people who are taking the phony Panama issue seriously. Yet the polls show that voters, over all, are not that impressed by foreign policy issues, which suggests that everybody might just as well relax...
...occurred among patients at tiny Riverdell Hospital in suburban Oradell, N.J., in 1965-66, a young doctor finally decided to act on his suspicions. Opening the chief surgeon's locker, he found 18 mostly empty vials of curare-a highly lethal drug sometimes used in small doses to relax muscles during surgery. No charges were ever brought against the surgeon -who explained he was merely using the relaxant for experiments on dogs...
Many in television are ex-newspapermen and, being aware that an entire half-hour newscast would not fill even one newspaper page, are apologetic for the superficiality and skimpiness of what they do. They hope to see network news shows extended to a full hour. Perhaps they should relax a little: in four minutes a night, they are not going to make anyone knowledgeable in Keynesian economics. All forms of journalism have their own point of satiety. Richard Salant, president of CBS News, says that Cronkite "has often said, but never meant" that he longs to end a broadcast...
...success came when they were still so young--Franken is 24, Davis 23--that comedians constantly caution them "not to burn out." Franken, sitting in his comfortable chair, was not disturbed. His only worry, he said, was when he would get a vacation from his writing job, not to relax, but to perform stand-up comedy...
...including a forlorn David Hershey-Webb, that a derailment at Copley Square had broken all Green Line service as far as Kenmore. Above ground, a confused crowd waited for buses. The overland route brought us to Kenmore Square, where another disgruntled crowd milled about. Across Beacon Street, in the Relax-A-Bit coffee house, a streetcar driver sullenly sipped coffee. He looked as gloomy as if he had driven the streetcar off its track himself; perhaps the derailment meant he would have to work late...