Word: carelessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...getting his first haircut. But shearers imperturbably plunk the animals down on their backsides. Then, clutching a forefoot in one hand and huge barber clippers in the other, they race through the shearing, rolling fleece off the sheep's belly like carpenters planing wood. Afterward, spectators see that careless shearers gouge into the tender skin, leaving traces of blood. "If it looks like Raggedy Ann you know one of these young shearers has done it," says Courser, snapping the gallus of his overalls. "You want to get the fleece off 'em without having too much hamburger when...
...flown to Kinshasa, Zaire's capital, aboard C-141s belonging to the U.S. Air Force (which billed the CIA for $80,000 for each 25-ton delivery). The supplies were then reshipped to Angolan bases aboard C-130s belonging to Zaire and South Africa. The guerrillas were so careless with the unfamiliar equipment that the CIA decided to dispatch paramilitary experts-officially described as intelligence gatherers-to help them...
...federal examiners called the irregularities "unsafe and unsound" banking practices. For failing to disclose them to stockholders, the examiners accused Lance and the banks of "fraud and deceit." Lance and the banks admitted no wrongdoing. Indeed, Lance in the past has blamed part of his troubles on "careless, erroneous or biased reporting" by the press. But he and the banks signed a consent decree, promising not to commit these kinds of questionable acts in the future. The decree bars Lance from ever again bouncing a check except in an "isolated and inadvertent" case. In addition, Lance agreed to give...
...easy for a woman to decide to have an abortion; much soul searching is done. It is not an instant, careless decision. To be bombarded with the right-to-life literature and ridicule seems as inhuman as the very process they are trying to prevent...
...Gelsey danced a succession of new roles in La Sylphide, La Fille Mal Gardée, Les Sylphides. Her first Giselle in May 1975 was a major triumph. Gelsey's peasant girl seemed halfway toward spirithood even before she falls in love with and is betrayed by Baryshnikov's charming, careless nobleman. Pure spirit in the second act, she had gossamer lightness, nearly unbearable youthful poignance. The part confirmed her arrival as a romantic ballerina...