Word: relaxers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare occasion when he can relax at home with his wife of 36 years, "Loki." Their modest residence, situated on the Rhine within sight of the I Chancellery, is furnished in modern-functional style and decorated with expressionist and impressionist paintings. Bookcases are filled with volumes on history and economics. Schmidt occasionally relaxes with a mystery story, preferably by Agatha Christie, plays Bach or Mozart on a large electric organ, or challenges his wife at chess and double solitaire. He hates to lose at chess, as well as politics; when he does, he is apt to rail...
...such an extent that at first they seemed oblivious to the presence of U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who in turn seemed happy to be left out. "I was delighted," he said later, "to see how their personal relations are so much better now that they can relax in each other's company." Sadat and his wife Jehan that day had marked their 30th wedding anniversary. Commenting on the President's spifTy appearance in his admiral's uniform at an earlier ceremony in El Arish, Begin joshed: "Your wife must have fallen in love with...
...fund drive efforts, however, will be "low-key." "Last year, they had 60 members who spent all four days going after money. There will be nothing like that this year," Abrams said. "This reunion is an occasion for all of us to relax and enjoy ourselves with a minimum of pressure...
...real intellectual interests outside politics. She reads primarily "to keep up," as she puts it, much prefers Rudyard Kipling to T.S. Eliot, rarely dines out or sees a play. Her only hobby is collecting Royal Crown Derby china. At the end of a day, she and Denis like to relax over a drink: hers is Scotch, neat and usually just...
...explanation is so simplified, though, that one must take care not to relax his critical faculties. Although the authors attempt to offer an objective analysis, as advocates of the theory, they tend to be overenthusiastic. It's not that they do not present opposing views (which they do), it's just that Woodcock and Davis always get the last word. Every objection is countered, and for a while it seems as if catastrophe theory really is the successor to the calculus--until the authors present a series of applications of their own device. The reader's reaction to these examples...