Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard and ever harder, and hold together," he said after his election. It was a sensible formula not only for India's Hindu-Moslem troubles but for the country's other problems...
...could also be that by the time the 11 o'clock news has rolled by, audiences are ready to put their minds up in curlers and just plain relax. They have followed the puerile plot lines of the regular adventure and comedy programs only to find themselves despairing once again in the land of déjà vu. "In all these series," says Johnny Carson, "the characters are predictable, the dialogue is predictable, the format is predictable. The audience is interested in something where they don't know what's going to happen next...
...Mary I. Bunting, apparently feels that the threat of a large financial deficit is sufficient cause to limit sharply the number of Cliffies eligible to move into their own apartments next year. In response, a growing number of girls organized a hunger strike to force Mrs. Bunting to relax the restrictions...
From experts, Schaub got all the help he needed on the obscure pharmacodynamical properties of succinylcholine chloride. As an anesthesiologist, Coppolino had had the opportunity to use it frequently on surgery patients to relax their muscles. Schaub proved to the jurors that it was also used on Carmela, injected into her left buttock in such massive dosage that it paralyzed and within minutes killed her. To carry the crux of his case, the prosecutor relied on the experts-and they came through with explicit, if esoteric evidence. Although scientists never had before been able to find traces of the drug...
...Harvard tennis team will have no chance to relax as it tackles a powerful Dartmouth squad on the home courts this afternoon...