Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, dressed in sweater and grey flannels, played golf last week† to relax from the first round of his campaign, and studied ring technique to prepare for his next. The question he faced: should he try to outbox Franklin Roosevelt, or to out-slug...
...electric shock have the disadvantage that the "fits" they produce are violent and may cause a patient to hurt himself. As many as half the metrazol patients used to get small fractures of vertebrae and other bones, but lately some doctors have used curare (TIME, Feb. 21) to relax muscles so that violent spasms will not occur...
...Menninger added that bed is a very poor place to rest, anyway; the trouble with most people is that they do not know how to relax...
Soon Franklin Roosevelt will be smack in the middle of his Term IV campaign. He will also be smack in the middle of one of the toughest politico-economic dilemmas of his career: he must decide whether to relax the Little Steel formula in order to permit the wage increases demanded by the A.F. L. and C.I.O. If he allows wages to rise, price stabilization might collapse; if he holds the lid down on wages, he may lose important labor support...
When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief...