Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinks Harvard is all hard work, who is going to give up going with women and stick to the intellectual discipline of the University. It is for the man who thinks that he will, perforce, be faithful to his home-town love and will never have a chance to relax with the belies of Greater Boston...
...poison vaguely connected with South American Indians and detective novels" was Dr. Harold R. Griffith's first idea of curare (rhymes with safari). But in last week's Canadian Medical Association Journal, the Montreal doctor tells how he changed his mind, pioneered the use of curare to relax tense muscles during operations...
...serve. First muscles affected are those of the head and neck; then the limbs are paralyzed, then the abdominal muscles, last of all the diaphragm and between-rib muscles which do the work of breathing. (The danger of the drug is that just a little more than enough to relax the abdominal muscles may paralyze breathing-therefore only expert anesthetists should use it.) Besides relaxing skeletal muscles, curare contracts the gut, making it easy to handle and replace...
...part of the broad policies to be followed, the Committee recommended that: 1) war surpluses should be sold abroad, if necessary to avoid glutting the U.S. market; 2) the Federal Government relax "traditional [audit] rules on payments," interpret regulations liberally to speed contracts settlements...
...little fat man with the red sash read the dispatches and concluded that he had led Spain far enough along the twisting road from pro-Axis nonbelligerency to neutral unneutrality. Francisco Franco felt that now he could relax a little...