Word: relaxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other indicators of biofeedback machines instantly report the body's reaction to thoughts or feelings. Once a patient discovers, for example, which feelings or tensions are associated with a warning buzz or light in the machine, he can learn by trial and error to shift his thoughts or relax his tensions and thereby avoid the warning...
...struck angrily at the TV set when his father, Jay Rockefeller, was interviewed because the child saw him more on the tube than in person. Joan Kennedy offers a one-word self-description: "Vulnerable." Jane Muskie may have cost her husband the Democratic nomination in 1972 by trying to relax with four women reporters after an exhausting campaign day. Her throw-away remark, "Let's just sit here and tell dirty jokes," was published and led to Muskie's celebrated New Hampshire "crying scene...
...Minister gave no clue as to what she would do next. Unquestionably, she will push ahead on the ambitious social and economic reforms inaugurated during the emergency (TIME, Oct. 27). Some Indians were hopeful that, with the court case behind her, Mrs. Gandhi would now feel strong enough to relax the emergency decrees, free the estimated 20,000 people still held without trial, dissolve Parliament and call for new elections for next spring-which she would almost certainly...
...frailty of el Caudillo, who has looked all of his 82 years since he suffered a near-fatal illness in mid-1974, was a dramatic reminder of how much more the regime needs to do to relax its often harsh rule and prepare Spain for a smooth transition into a post-Franco era once the Generalissimo dies or, less likely, steps down. At a time when Spain badly needs closer ties with Western Europe to help sustain its rise to prosperity and ease the coming transition, an all but irrational outburst of anti-Spanish emotions in European capitals has left...
...famous for his heft (over 250 lbs. at the last weigh-in) as for his high-volume horn. His hits include such brassy tunes as Java, Cotton Candy and Fly Me to the Moon, which was piped into outer space in 1965 to help the Gemini 7 astronauts relax...