Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spills: "Just relax for a moment or two. Don't thrash about. Study your position, and plan...
After six and a half hours, Dr. James E. Bell Jr. decided to improvise. He gave a shot of neostigmine-recently used to relax contracted muscles in polio and arthritis (TIME, Jan. 15) and a shot of atropine. In 15 minutes the bitten boy's abdomen began to soften, his legs relaxed a little. In an hour he was comfortable except for a slight headache...
...informal and curious as the liveliest of his students and only a scant dozen years older than most of them, handsome, curly-headed President Taylor (31) fits easily into Sarah Lawrence's small seminars and faculty evenings where students and tutors relax and argue in easy chairs or sprawled on floors. He is impatient of colleges that "rely more upon acquiring respectable opinions . . . than upon creating an attitude of mind which insists on examining opinion critically." Says he of his students: "They are just friends of mine. . . . We talk to each other and are quite unaware that...
...resisted public clamor; only 255,000 of the Navy's 3,000,000 have been released. But under growing pressure, and aware of the damage its policy has had on the morale of its reserves-both officers and enlisted men- even the Navy is beginning grudgingly to relax, will raise its discharge rate to 280,000 a month by January...
During Stalin's absence, the Kremlin secretariat could relax, too. The London conference had failed miserably and Western capitalism was being its usual annoying self (see INTERNATIONAL), but the Soviet press preferred not to worry its readers too much. It played up refresher courses in Communism...