Word: careless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tumbling of carnival masqueraders past a plate-glass window adds ineffable poignancy to Actress Deneuve's tranquil blonde perfection as she waits for Guy. And in her wedding scene, wearing a maternity bridal gown, she is the exquisite embodiment of every girl who ever traded her first careless rapture for a bit of tangible security...
...Crimson was tiring, becoming careless, rushing shots, and failing to set up its defense. Austin, on a fast break, hit a jump shot from the circle, then half a minute later hit a jumper from the corner. Then Austin grabbed a bad Dressler pass, and on a picturesque fast break fed to Doug Hice, who made...
...LAOS. A Laotian bonze is likely to remind questioners that for a priest to talk politics violates one of the 227 Theravadan rules of conduct. The constitution stipulates that the King must be a "fervent Buddhist," but fervor in happy-go-lucky Laos covers a multitude of careless religious enthusiasms. Perennial civil war has left Buddhist practice virtually uninvolved, though near the Luang temple, skilled, cigarette-puffing monks cheerfully cast their Buddhas in brass melted down from 37-mm. and 105-mm. artillery cartridges...
Haste is the standing excuse of the newsman whose deadline bouts with the typewriter let a cliche or two slip past his careless eye. In an effort to reduce the cliche content of its own copy, the Associated Press, which must cope with haste to a greater degree than most news-gathering agencies, decided to enlist the aid of a computer. From ditors and staff writers all over the U.S., the A.P. assembled a list of 469 hackneyed words and phrases. These were fed into a Univac 1105, along with 375,000 words of wire copy to be sifted...
forces themselves, revealing at least part of the U.S. command as grossly careless and inept...