Word: casual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then came a sound that made McLaren swivel in his seat-a staccato roar, rapidly increasing in volume. Here was Clark, buzzing merrily along, ignorant of the drama up ahead. Down the straightaway rolled Bruce McLaren, at a desperate 30 m.p.h. Down the straightaway flashed Jimmy Clark, at a casual 130 m.p.h. McLaren was pounding his knees in helpless frustration as Clark zipped past, just 300 yds. from the finish...
...sight of Farmer Austin Stottlemyer's 50 handsome Holstein cows moseying down the main street of Antietam Furnace might have seemed properly bucolic to a casual visitor. But not to the natives of the little (pop. 51) Maryland village. Stottlemyer was careful to obey the state law-one farm hand walked in front of the herd and one behind-but the villagers complained that the cows obstructed traffic, trampled flower beds, and left a trail of manure that was not only tracked into houses but sometimes caused children to slip and fall perilously close to passing cars. On their...
...more than 300 companies, 66 nations, Mormons, Methodists, Catholics and assorted amusement-park types all reaching for him, a fairgoer is lost without a plan, since it is possible to spend a whole day in a series of places that might better be avoided for a whole lifetime. A casual browser is better off in Death Valley than in Flushing Meadow, and the fair's avenues and promenades are already lined with the whitening bones of people who did not read up on the fair and map out their itineraries in advance...
...Cromwell's England in the 17th century. Others belong to the wealthy, literate Anglo-Jewish families, such as the banking Rothschilds, who began to leave the ghettos of Europe 100 years later and came to exert great economic and political power in Britain. Liberal in outlook, sometimes casual in religious observance, traditional Anglo-Jewry is oddly yoked with more recent immigrants from Eastern Europe-rigidly Orthodox Jews, fearful that their traditional beliefs will be corrupted by the alien world of the goyim...
Although no Scoffer would be caught dead studying for exams earlier than exam week (at which time he may exert veritably superhuman efforts), chances are the spectre of examinations is never completely absent from his thoughts. Engaged in casual poker marathons, putting on faces of nonchalance to the world, he may perhaps shriek in his night-mares "The system is evil, unfair, stupid...