Word: tranquilization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shown that hard-driving editors, ad men, sales managers and men in similar competitive careers have more cholesterol in their blood, shorter clotting time and more heart-artery disease than men of more relaxed temperaments, in less exacting jobs (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958). This was true even when the tranquil men ate as much animal fat, smoked as much, and got as little exercise as the climbers. Dr. Friedman suspected that taut emotions worked on the arteries through hormones. But which? And was it a 24-hour process, or did it happen mainly during the gogetters' working hours...
...studio is a small, skylit shed set amid four tranquil acres of Hertfordshire farm land, an hour north of London. Inside, workbenches are covered with old bones, sticks, water-smoothed pebbles, shells from the English coast and the Riviera sands. On the walls are curious drawings in pencil or in sallow greens, yellows and reds-disturbing, faceless human forms composed of lines, curves, shadows and holes...
...dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed in body. Deliver me from the spirit of rivalry and from all resentment at the actions of others and bring me to my journey...
...wedding last month, Japan's Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko stole away to an imperial villa near the seaside resort of Hayama, some 50 miles south of Tokyo. In seclusion most of the time, they occasionally emerged, sportily attired, for strolls along the beach, seemed rapt in tranquil domesticity...
...ornate palace he is occupying for a second term (his first: 1939-45), wispy, white-haired President Manuel Prado y Ugarteche, 69, told TIME Correspondent George de Carvalho in elegant French: "Be tranquil, mon cher. There will be no collapse." Quite possibly he was right. In a strange alliance, this dandified scion of the rich class that Peru calls "the oligarchs" has teamed up with Ramiro Prialé, 55, the revolutionary who bosses Latin America's greatest mass political movement, the Apra, to put Peruvian democracy on a working, paying basis...