Word: blase
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...make a better mayor than incumbent White, who has had several sides indicted on corruption charges and has himself been linked to such high-level scandals as selling a Beacon Hill town house for a dollar. But wholesomeness doesn't equal victory, especially in a town that is rather blase by now about corruption...
Words like elan and in lieu and blase...
This deliberately low-key approach produced turnouts in some cities that obviously disappointed the nuclear consciousness raisers. Complained Ground Zero Volunteer Kathleen Conkling of her Tulane University classmates in New Orleans: "This campus is apathetic." Less blase were 250 students at Atlanta's Emory University, who rallied on a chilly night to hear an eyewitness account of the Hiroshima bomb's aftermath. In a campus referendum at Brown University in Providence, 96% of the faculty, staff and student body approved a mutual U.S.-Soviet weapons freeze...
...that he disliked certain characters, but that he did not care enough about them one way or another to justify their presence on the page. That is not true of The Mosquito Coast. Charlie, the author's mouthpiece, is too young to be cynical or blase. Fate, in the form of his outrageous father, has handed him an amazing series of experiences, and he recounts them with enthusiasm and love...
...store is covered with photographs of tourists, soldiers and scientists displaying Wall Drug signs everywhere from Antarctica to the Taj Mahal. The drugstore has even paid for advertising signs in Amsterdam, Paris and London. In the end, all these signs produce enough curiosity to attract even the most blase passerby. "I just had to stop," said a long-haired, leather-jacketed biker from Beloit, Wis., on his way to a motorcycle rally in the Black Hills. "This is all I've been reading for the past 200 miles...