Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Located in the basement of Eliot House adjacent to the main kitchens, the Grill before the war offered a variety of sandwiches and drinks and a place to relax in the course of an evening's studies...
...What I actually said," Cleo declared angrily last night, "Was that all GIs playing football had a tendency to relax after they piled up a big lead. I was speaking in general, not about Harvard, and anybody that says there was dissension on the team this fall doesn't know what he's talking about...
...shadow of blame could be cast on George Marshall. In eleven months he had won the affection and respect of both Nationalist and Communist leaders, and the Chinese people. (Mrs. Marshall's graceful contributions had included teaching the austere Generalissimo to relax over Chinese checkers...
...begun noticing odd things about halfway through the game. The way he couldn't relax with everyone else after the star halfback limped off the other side of the field, and the way he wondered whether the back would go to class Monday, and most of all whether he'd have to be banged up again before he got his letter. On the way back from the game he watched lots of things he never saw before: the foolishness of an empty stadium, the sad looks on the peddlers who got stuck with left-over pennants, the way the House...
...months ago, MacPhail hired him as "special assistant" and it looked as if Bucky at last could put his feet on a desk in the Yankees' plush, Fifth Avenue offices and relax. Then he got the manager...