Word: casual
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their 6-in. tusks. And that is not all: Owner "Wolfie" Wolfenbarger, a retired Knoxville restaurateur, has stocked the Haven with big-horned aoudad (wild sheep) from North Africa, mouflons from Corsica, elk from Canada, sika deer from Japan and red stags from Bavaria. In two days of casual shooting at the Haven last week, three hunters bagged four wild turkeys (average weight: 22 Ibs.), three huge boars, a 425-lb. black bear and two aoudads-one with 29-in. horns. Grinned one of the happy trio: "I feel like the last of the Habsburgs...
...Roads to Sumter is too palpably designed for the casual readers to be a valuable piece of scholarship. Many of its thoughts on political moderation are shrewd and timely, but a sensational tone exhibits them to poor advantage. For the Messrs. Catton, as for Lincoln and Douglas in the 1858 Illinois senatorial campaign, it appears that "exact historical accuracy was less important than an appealing argument...
...chemical complex, for a price somewhere between $150 million and $300 million. L'Unità's shrill attack on the proposed sale-which is still very much in the negotiating stage-was quickly picked up by left-wingers in Parliament, and it soon seemed to the casual reader that all Italy was threatened with domination by "foreign monopolies and cartels." Ignored in the outburst was the real reason that Montecatini wants to sell: it has overextended itself and badly needs cash...
Died. Samuel Sorenson Adams, 84, Danish-born founder (in 1909) and president of S. S. Adams Co. of Neptune, N.J., world's largest makers of sneezing powder, hidden buzzers, rubber lizards, squirting boutonnieres and other boffs, all of which he delighted in trying out on friends, relatives and casual acquaintances; of a heart attack; in, Asbury Park...
...dark suit worn with a white French shirt and a four-in-hand tie is the next step down in formality. And this may be the wave of the future. As customs in dressing become more casual, even formal wear manufacturers succumb to popular practices. At a recent formal wear manufacturers' convention, "black tie" was optional, and 90 per cent of the men arrived in dark suits. But dressing formal can be an enjoyable production, and in tradition-bound New England, formal occasions requiring formal dress fortunately still do arise...