Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finals with the loss of only one set. Bobby Riggs, ranked No. 2, had thrice won the Sea Bright Tournament, the first major grass-court tournament of the season. Bobby felt fine this year. His weight was up five pounds (to 140) and he had found out how to relax in the middle of a match without lowering his game. Tennis fans consider him the smartest, nearest thing to a veteran in the present crop of headliners. He doesn't hit very hard, but he hits for the openings. He has a fine, quick wrist that enables...
...Beautiful People (written and produced by William Saroyan). Playwright Saroyan is still selling his big but ancient idea-that living can be pretty fine if people can relax and savor it. The trouble is that in his new play the Theater's most pronounced overdose of vitamin "I" leadens, rather than lightens, his fantasy with the well-known Saroyan whimsey...
...signal for inhibitions to slip gently down over the shoulders. Strong-through-joy Nazi Germany, however, frowns on undisciplined enjoyment, and for the last 18 months gaiety has been regulated almost out of existence. But last week came a sign that even the Germans must relax to shake off the jitters of war as reports arrived of ten days of hoopla in the Bavarian Alps...
...date the Thailand-French Indo-China armistice is to expire, by which time Japan was expected to have French Indo-China in her clutches. By then, too, the moon would be dark over the English Channel. If nothing happened by the end of February, those who expected attack might relax-something Hitler, Mussolini, Konoye & Co. may have been counting...
That amount can be considered as the marginal fund which makes his year a success instead of a drudgery. If Eli is a commuter instead of a House member, for instance, the extra money may enable him to join Dudley Hall, (where he can meet fellow students and relax) instead of having to eat his lunch out of a paper bag in Boylston Reading Room. All concerned will benefit...