Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examined and interviewed by two of Dr. Cowles's non-medico assistants. Placing one hand against the patient's stomach, the examiner grasped the bridge of the patient's nose with the knuckles of the first and second fingers of his other hand. Then he said: "Relax your mind. Relax your body. Now you're feeling better." After this, the patient entered the auditorium, listened to testimonials from others...
...Varsity winning the Compton Cup for the sixth straight year by a length and a quarter and the Yardlings all but leaving their opponents hull down astern. When a crew gets that far ahead the tendency is for a general let-down, but apparently the Freshmen didn't relax very much, and the Varsity never moved for enough ahead to take their minds off the business at hand...
...that the conqueror was surrounded, the men of the battalion alone among silent enemies, and no man might relax his guard for even a moment. If he did, he disappeared, and some snowdrift received his body. If he went alone to a woman, he disappeared. ... If he drank, he disappeared...
...pressagents in Washington appear to have been working overtime to coin a catchy victory slogan for America's war effort. They can relax...
...enterprising few U.S. soldiers worked hard at an odd project: they went diving, trying to salvage the cargo of a capsized barge rumored to have had whiskey aboard. No one tried to stop them. Douglas MacArthur knew that his men were good men as long as they could relax in their off hours, as long as they wisecracked about bombs and the hand of death above them...