Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter seemed to relax fully and enjoy two softball games between a team of White House staff members and unarmed Secret Service agents and a squad collected by Billy from townspeople and the traveling press. Pitching all the way, Jimmy led his team to victory in the first game, 6 to 5, even though he himself went hitless. His team lost the second game, 12 to 8, despite his solid single. After the game, the tireless President jogged home in the 90° heat...
...called Freshman Week, and everyone in the Class of 1982 can join in the fun. Freshman Week, like death, taxes, and papers, is one of those things that you just can't avoid. So you might as well make the best of it. Out advice to you it to relax, be open, not nervous (you're here, so you must be as good as everyone else, right?), and don't do anything you don't want to do. You may love the week, and then again you may hate it--in fact, most people do, because the nervous-energy level...
...coaches of various teams. And there will also be physical examinations, from 4 to 10 p.m., for those considering a career in athletics here. But for the most part, this an open day, that is, the University doesn't have too many things up its sleeve for you. So relax...
...result is a succession of classic genre confrontations carried out by dispirited people, movement without brio or suspense. With all the violent interruptions, it is hard to take the characters seriously. But, since so much of their behavior carries a socially deterministic message, we also can't relax into the mindlessly pleasurable state that a good crime story can induce. We are caught in annoying limbo, made more vexing by the picture's occasional flashes of satirical intelligence (a brief descent into the chic drug culture of Beverly Hills, the hard cynicism of Zerbe and his associates). Finally...
...candidate glances apprehensively at his watch, grimacing when he realizes he is running 15 minutes behind schedule. His advance man, trying to relax his boss, tells him of the time vice presidential hopeful Sargent Shriver arrived three hours late for a rally in New Hampshire during the 1972 campaign, only to find no one there. The candidate responds jokingly that it would have made no difference if Shriver were on time; no one would have been there anyway...