Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ecstasy, Fuchsia. First to falter was West Virginia's Mary Conley, 12, who wanted to win so desperately that she muffed an easy word: desperately. (She made it "desparately.") The official pronouncer tried to soothe jangled nerves: "Relax, don't get excited. Have some fun." After that, things calmed down a bit, as contestants tripped on the tricky and the tough ones: remuneration, victuals, catarrh, integrity, censure, subtle, vaudeville, ukulele, bilious, ecstasy, granary, paraphernalia, hybrid, corollary, auricle, pugnacity, awry, diocese, quay, colossal, tutelage, idiosyncrasy, fuchsia, corroboration, rhinoceros, dysentery, desiccate, scintillate, proselyting, bellicose, knave, sarsaparilla...
...boilers, pumps, ejectors, condensers, "the maze of teeth [on] the great twelve-foot bull gear . . . hobbed in spirals, or helices, across the gear wheel's rim." What, he wondered, was the net effect on man of such machines? Would the jittery 20th Century eventually learn to relax in a "kingdom of engines?" Ed Greenewater laughed and said, "Goddamn it, don't take it so hard, Second." The Chief grunted and went on reading Pip Magazine...
...Relax, boys; reference is to temperature and the scale is Fahrenheit. (For nonscientific readers: 1) 310° K = 98.6°F; 2) that is body temperature; 3) a distortion point of 310°K would mean that the plastic cups would lose their shape at body temperature...
...most talked-about horse over the uphill and downhill course of mile-and-a-half-long Epsom Downs next week, he will have to blame himself: he has already announced that he considers Tudor Minstrel perhaps the greatest horse he has ever ridden. If he loses, he can still relax on his 300-acre Wiltshire farm, race pigeons, fly airplanes-and ride a winner a day or so later. If that's the way it must be, relaxed, competent Jockey Richards can take it, without too much pain. Says he: "I've got a good bed, a good...
After five months in the presidency, Aléman has not forgotten how to relax and have fun. Sometimes he goes to his house in the play-town of Cuernavaca for a round of golf (85 to 90). Recently he has spent more & more of his weekends at Ramon Beteta's Acapulco house, flying down in his own DC-3 for swimming and fishing. Usually his family is with him-wife Beatriz, .son Miguel, 15, daughter Beatriz, 14; for the present, month-old Jorge Francisco stays in the Mexico City nursery. On Monday Aléman is back...