Word: unwindings
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...healthy person may experience an alarming jerk that brings him suddenly wide awake, often with the vivid impression of a frightening dream, e.g., one involving a fall. Many peopie ask their physicians about these jerks, get some such explanation as, "It's your muscles relaxing suddenly as you unwind." This explanation sometimes helps, but it makes no scientific sense. The fact is, medical science knows little about the phenomenon...
...unwind what fate had woven...
...Santee's world indoor mile record (TIME, Feb. 14). Thoroughly chastened and uncommonly quiet, Wesley went home to Lawrence, Kans. to train. When the starter's gun cracked for the Baxter Mile last week at the New York Athletic Club games, Wes wanted to be ready to unwind with the race of his life...
Andrews began by reorganizing the service itself. He cut the staff in Washington, increased it in the field, made plans that will eventually double the present field force of 8,000. To unwind the red tape, he consolidated 17 area offices under nine regional commissioners, entrusted them with much authority formerly centered in Washington...
...increase in intercollegiate teams means merely an increasing number of opposing coaches awed by Barnaby's consistently excellent products. Barnaby, too, they find, is a ball of string. But the more they unwind him, the better he seems to get. There will be quite a few more national champions in Hemenway before he finally goes BANG and they...