Word: unwind
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...Creeden decides to unwind his arm again today, then more old records and Bucknell should bow, by about...
...Berlinetta Speciale, easily the hottest-looking machine on display, has the snub nose and cropped rear of the Le Mans-winning Ford GT and a three-place seat with the driver's spot in the middle for optimum visibility on the race track. Also, it can unwind its 325 h.p. engine to 180 m.p.h...
...exacting standards of Julio Cortázar, a lazy reader is one who expects the author to do all the work. Such a reader assumes that a story will unwind consecutively, rationally, grammatically, before his indolent eyes. The sentences parse, the paragraphs link, the chapters march, good soldiers all, to a dramatically acceptable denouement. So much for the lazy reader. Author Cortázar wants nothing to do with...
...program tells us that South Pacific provides "ample opportunities for book-weary students to unwind." Well, so why didn't they unwind? How come they slouched through two and a half hours as if the performance were a second run through? How come they had no timing, no pace, no zest? The kindest answer is that the show needs works (South Pacific's been afflicted with almost as many unforeseen difficulties as Cleopatra) and there can be no doubt that next weekend, when the cast feels more secure, it will be a damn sight more entertaining...
...barking "I'm not a performing seal!" at lensmen who tried to photograph him drinking tea. But times do change, and in Hampstead the Prime Minister obligingly teed off to cozy up his image. It was billed as a pause in the day's grind. "I unwind quickly in the fresh air," Wilson offered, adding, in case the photographers couldn't tell: "I'm not very good at golf." Feet too close together, knee locked, arms carefully flexed, he poised to driver, ah, maybe it was supposed to be the other way around. Well, anyway, there...