Word: unwinds
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...Sadat's residence in Giza, and the 1,500 guests dined simply on cold meats, lemonade and tea. The entertainment was something else. On the program was a blond singer, a comedian and Egypt's two leading belly dancers. For Sadat, it was a perfect way to unwind after the bumps and grind at Camp David...
...Second, unwind some Government regulations that devour capital. "For example, we have to develop domestic sources of energy, and some environmental rules will have to take a backseat -temporarily...
...underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from a Depression custom in which local farmers traded live fowl for the favors of the girls. Postpubescent lads, like the winning Aggie football team, matriculate to manhood here under expert tutelage...
...much a part of the score as the 16 cannon blasts in Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Yet hard-core pinballers find the game exquisitely relaxing. West Virginia's Secretary of State James Manchin, 49, plays early in the morning to sharpen his mind, at lunchtime to unwind and in the evening to forget his problems. "At the machine," he says, "all the cares and woes of the world are remote...
...attacking, say, a 90° right turn. Approach down the extreme left. Brake and downshift from fourth to third. Brake and downshift third to second. Steady throttle. Now turn at an angle that touches the inside shoulder at the very center-the apex-of the corner. Accelerate out. Unwind the wheel. Breathe...