Word: unwindings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hapless Boubouroche finds himself. What is worse, he learns that he has been sporting his shameful appendage for eight whole years, since the very beginning of his liaison with his first and only mistress, Adele. Yet even when he catches her lover in the closet, he is powerless to unwind himself from around her little finger. For, as one of the actors puts it in a formally informal prologue to the double-bill, if Law is justice without temperament, Woman is temperament without justice, Entangled in the web of either, Man is equally helpless...
Randall advises the business executive to unwind himself from his cocoon. He should make himself available to news men, "not just the grand interview at the time of the annual meeting, but continuously." When he has strong feelings on public affairs, he should bypass company lobbyists or trade organizations and make his personal views known directly to Congressmen or Cabinet officers. He should speak frequently at colleges and universities, and subject himself to round tables where "questions will be searching but honest-the sort his staff will never...
With the Crimson still unable to unwind, Gray Henry put the Tigers two up at 2:12. Lou Williams, one of the nation's top scorers, finally put the Crimson into the scoring column at 9:51 by converting a pass from Grady Watts...
...consensus, the most single-minded of the group in his determination to get into space. Says Scott Carpenter, Glenn's back-up astronaut: "Most people need a break in the routine to relax and unwind. But not John. He needs no diversion. He's all business and darned hard to keep up with." What is more, Glenn has so devoted himself to the success of the mission that he has come to look upon himself as just another piece of machinery in the system...
...unwind from his work, Dykstra likes to raise flowers (roses, daffodils, tulips) in the garden of his Georgian colonial home in suburban Bloomfield Vil lage, where he lives with his wife Marion. Another hobby: quick trips to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he has a home and a 33-ft. Chris-Craft cruiser for deep-sea fishing...