Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laxmen get a chance to relax until Saturday afternoon when they will do battle with Princeton's Tigers in New Jersey...
Profiles of students who did take voluntary leaves show the vast majority left for personal reasons such as "personal growth" or time to think and relax. Over 80 per cent worked for some of their leave, while almost three-quarters traveled for part of the time. About 60 per cent had specific plans before they left school...
...rode like centaurs. They made cloaks from tanned scalps, and the skin of a right arm would furnish a container for their arrows. ("The skin of a man," noted Herodotus, who could seldom resist a piquant detail, "is thick and glossy, and whiter than almost all other hides.") To relax, they got uproariously drunk on thick wine from the Black Sea area, which they quaffed from the leather-bound skulls of their foes, or they would dump marijuana seeds on red-hot stones and breathe the smoke. Fortunately for archaeology, they buried their dead kings and nobles in barrows, surrounded...
...dusk, the poor come home to another meal of beans and rice; then, they relax in the doorways and chat with their neighbors along the streets of dust. An inferno of small children runs everywhere. The literate adults--estimated at between 50 and 60 per cent of the population--cannot read at night because there is no electricity. They cannot bathe; there is neither running water not toilets. So they perhaps light a candle to prolong the day, and the conversations, before going...
Internally, Khalid and Fahd will continue the ambitious development Saudi Arabia has set for the next decade based on its oil revenues ($28.9 billion last year). Industrialization will inevitably add to the pressures on the regime to relax Faisal's insistence upon conformity to Islamic laws. So will the presence of up to 2 million foreign workers and dependents in a country whose own population is only 5.7 million...