Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...center, one year old this fall, is the spot where students in foreign languages can relax and enjoy themselves in an informal atmosphere. Exhibits, easy chairs, records, and light novels are the methods employed by the Center to make language learning painless and voluntary...
...time she is seen, pacing her cage, gnawing her heart out for Mr. Hodiak, she is modeling a different dress. This subtle device for denoting the passage of time gets pretty funny after a while. If you could be sure that it was meant to be funny, you could relax and enjoy it thoroughly. The one substantial point of reference in Desert Fury's bewildering world is Mary Astor, who is at once attractive, amusing and vigorously convincing as the hardbitten, hard-biting mother...
...There are too many people . . . who think that the Kingdom of God is just something you hire a preacher to worry about so the congregation can relax." In fact, said 27-year-old Rev. Harmon H. Bro of the Christian Church of Lanark, Ill., his church's 100 members were so relaxed that only about 30 attended services regularly, and church revenue was steadily declining. "This calls for a drastic step," he added. "The only thing I can think of is to set an example...
...People Relax Me." At 48, he is a smiling, relaxed man with a knack of getting along with his fellow workers, most of whom call him Dave. He is a voracious reader, with a lightning mind, makes notes in clean, clear Gregg shorthand. He has not smoked since he lost his voice chain-smoking three packs in a row during an all-night conference with Wendell Willkie. He drinks sparingly: occasionally one Martini, rarely more...
People are his hobby. "People relax me." For exercise he pitches horseshoes and, a little shamefacedly, plays croquet. He misses the rides he used to take through the Tennessee Valley on his bay gelding, "Mac." He misses gardening. Though there is plenty of room on the five-acre farm the Lilienthals have rented at Rockville, Md., he no longer has time for that kind of gardening...