Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...depends on my state of mind. There are times when I deliberately avoid the crises in International and National Affairs and relax with Cinema or Medicine until I am capable of coping with the 'problems.' TIME is not to be read hurriedly like a to-be-continued-tomorrow serial because many of TIME'S stories are as timely today as they were a year...
...imperative that the Crimson relax tonight. Time is running out in Ivy League competition, with only seven games remaining, and the Varsity is currently holding up the rest of the league with a 0-5 record...
Barclay feels all the team needs is a little confidence. "They're trying too hard," he explains. "If they didn't have that losing streak on their back, they'd relax. But now when they go into a game and get a couple of bad breaks, they start pressing...
Soon after they found they were pregnant, the mothers-to-be were given a lecture on the physiology and hygiene of pregnancy and two classes in how to relax by exercise. Another lecture on labor and delivery and two more exercise classes were given the last month. The last class ended with a tour of the obstetrical di vision, labor and delivery rooms, so the women would know what to expect. Doctors and nurses avoided the words "labor pains," and spoke of "contractions." During delivery, the mother may, if she likes, watch the process in a mirror; she is always...
...powder-room joke to drive home an advertising point. In an ad in the New York Times for such labor-saving gimmicks as toasters and electric juicers, it showed a housewife stretched out in an armchair enjoying a television show. Advised Gimbels: "When housework is inevitable, relax and enjoy...