Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four and twenty fat women sat in a row. They hardly knew where they were-and didn't care. Eleven stories below, in Chicago's Loop, riveters chattered, but all they heard was a soothing, syrupy voice. Said the voice: "Close your eyes and relax." They did. "You are going to be deep, deep asleep in a few minutes." They slept...
Harry Truman sounded like a desperate football coach talking to a team that was leading at half time, but apt to lose the game if it got too cocky. He hammered at that one theme: this may look good, but don't relax; the toughest part is ahead...
...When to Relax. Such clutch hitting and pitching makes Dressen's managing job seem easy. He claims it is: "Hell, they manage themselves." But Charley Dressen had added something to make a runaway leader out of a team that (under Burt Shotton) floundered along behind Philadelphia most of last season, then lost the pennant on the final day by failing when the chips were down...
...difference, Dressen thinks, is mostly in his own attitude. "I'm with them, and they're more relaxed. I never put a player in the doghouse. I don't care if they go out at night and have a drink. Training for baseball is not like training for a fight, where it's all over in 30 minutes. The boys have to relax once in a while." But, adds Dressen, "when they make a mistake, I fine 'em-and they get over it quick...
...Manhattan the boys finally got a chance to relax. First stop: the Statue of Liberty...