Word: casual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
British radio, like a British weekend, is casual, slow-paced and elastic. If the script calls for a minute of silence or three hours of steady bagpiping, the BBC's Third Program* (TIME, Nov. 4) is only too happy to oblige. British broadcasters and British listeners have no horror of dead air or of overtime. In the U.S., such dawdling is unthinkable: a production is adaptable to radio only if it can be hustled through on an hour, a half-hour or a 15-minute schedule, with carefully timed pauses for the sponsor's plugs...
...skeptical U.S. radiomen, BBC's Transcription Director Thomas P. Gale had a ready comment on casual British timing: ". . . If the sieve we use for selecting broadcast material leaves works like these on the wrong side, then I think we should change our mesh...
Miss Robertson, in charge of the playground, found, like others before her, that the children got far more affection than those of small upper-class families. But it was casual affection; at the end of hot summer days-so Miss Robertson was told-the police could always pick up a score or so of babies left behind on Dublin Bay strand...
...said Maloney, is "the glum fact of the New Yorker's perfection; because perfection, in the mind of Harold Ross, is not a goal or an ideal, but something that belongs to him, like his watch or his hat." In 22 years, this has enormously complicated the once casual synthesis of the magazine: "Ross is no longer content with a profile; he requests also a family history, bank reference, social security number, urinalysis, catalogue of household possessions, names of all living relatives, business connections, political affiliations, as well as a profile...