Word: casual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of refined disco tune, made for dancing and casual listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...
Communion with Protestants is becoming more common, although the Vatican allows it only under special circumstances, and bishops frown on casual intercommunion. At St. Thomas Aquinas parish in Ames, some of the town's many Protestants show up occasionally at Communion and are not turned away ("So many of them believe as we do," explains Pastor James Supple). Last Easter the Catholic and Episcopal chaplains at an Eastern university assisted a Lutheran minister in celebrating the midnight Eucharist-in a Dutch Reformed church. Catholics are generally enjoying a new freedom to attend Protestant and Jewish services. "In Oklahoma...
...jumble, one in which it's hard to tell where the order is. The red brick, while offset by inset balconies and windows, is still massive and intimidating. The pedestrian areas are claustrophobic, their trees in neat rows or sunk in cement, quite unlikely to be the site of casual gatherings. The river is nearby, but so is the noisy traffic on Soldiers Field Road, Western Ave. and the Mass Pike. The complex's curious siting isolates it from most of the surrounding area, so that if you wanted to buy something not at the built-in grocery store...
...lead him into trouble. He becomes entangled in a menage-a-quatre involving his agents Hugo and Morris and Hugo's wife Joanna. The problem is that Morris loves Joanna while Joanna no longer cares for Hugo but has eyes for Garry. This threatening catch in a series of casual liaisons drives Garry back to the security of his wife...
...seems the theories will keep coming. Anorexia's increasing frequency among both males and females could mean that the results of future studies, based on a larger number of patients, will be more conclusive and more widely accepted. But future studies may only result in a few more casual theories spiralling off, and the development of a new theory to explain why anorexia is on the upswing...