Word: blasing
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...another shyly or with some contempt. And the very good dancers check to see that their knees and toes are turned out at just the proper angle, and the very pretty dancers draw deep breaths to flatten their tummies, and the very smug dancers continue to look blase and shake their legs, like world-weary professionals...
Southern Californians have grown almost blase about their recurrent forest and brush fires, flash floods and mud slides. Indeed, some were able to grasp their Bloody Marys on the morning after last week's disaster and joke about their survival. Yet there is something singularly shattering to the serenity of nearly all humans when the ground moves; the earth is, after all, everyone's womb and tomb. So the forecast of worse quakes to come troubled even calamity-conditioned Californians as they slowly cleared the debris and tried to forget the terror that had started at dawn...
When a dissident stockholder at General Motors' annual meeting last May asked why the world's largest manufacturer had no black directors. Chairman James Roche replied blandly: "Because none have been elected." Behind that blase front, G.M. management has been more concerned than it has ever admitted by insistent charges that it does not show enough social responsibility. The charges have been leveled primarily by Ralph Nader and his followers in "Campaign G.M." The workers in Campaign G.M. raised a ruckus at the last annual meeting and are now ready to begin soliciting proxies for the next...
...year of eligibility. Finally, he started his first varsity game in 1968 against San Jose State College. Connecting on 10 out of 13 passes for 277 yds., he buried San Jose by throwing for four touchdowns and running for a fifth. A few spectacular performances later, and the usually blase Stanford fans took up a new chant: "Plunkett to 'em!" Though hobbled by a knee injury in his last seven games that season, he completed 142 out of 268 passes, for 2,156 yds. and 14 touchdowns...
SerVaas adds: "The Post will represent Middle America, but not in the Agnew sense. It will be neither sophisticated nor blase." In other words, it will be what the Post is best remembered for, as Norman Rockwell put it, "kindness, sympathy, nostalgia and optimism." Rockwell, 76, has been enlisted to do the first cover of the revived Post. What the subject will be is still undecided...