Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, the President shucked off visitors and boarded his yacht, the Williamsburg for a leisurely nine-day cruise in Chesapeake and Delaware Bays. Truman finds in the Williamsburg one of the few places on earth where he can relax with his friends in privacy. If Harry Truman is sent back to Missouri next January, undoubtedly the thing he will miss most will be the yacht...
...Float. At University High field, he taught Patton how to "float." The idea was, to explode off the blocks and drive like mad for 50 yards. Then he was to shift gears, i.e., relax while maintaining maximum speed (the way Patton describes it: "You just settle down and go along for the ride...
Almonds & Yearnings. As Boston grew and prospered, even the Puritans began to relax. The wily, pleasure-liking Judge Samuel Sewall, who had been one of the judges at the Salem witchcraft trials, arrived at a more tolerant vision of life, spent his last widower years wooing likely widows, and married three times. In his vivid diary, one of the best mirrors of the social life of his time, Judge Sewall noted his gifts to the Widow Denison: "K. Georges Effigies in Copper ... A pound of Raisins and Proportionate Almonds . . . A pair of Shoe Buckles cost five shillings three pence...
Like corpses in a morgue, track-&-field stars lay sprawled on benches in the locker room. They were trying to relax before the big test: the two-day tryouts to pick the three athletes in each event to "make the boat" for the XIV Olympiad. Making the boat (the S.S. America) for London this week didn't depend on how many world's records a man had set already; under the ironclad Olympic rules, the only thing that mattered now was how he did in Northwestern University's Dyche Stadium...
...Reader Berger not relax his vigilance; TIME hopes to quote Reinhold Niebuhr again, any week...