Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since 1937, the combined Oxford-Cambridge track team was on a mission to the U.S. The purpose: to flex muscles, see the sights, win a few races. Explained one Oxford high-hurdler: "We try to be as casual as possible. With us, track is for relaxation and recreation." Britain's easygoing invaders carried informality so far that their only "coach" was a slender, 20-year-old Oxford medical student, Roger Bannister, who was also the squad's captain and star miler...
Well Run. In Princeton last week against a combined Princeton-Cornell team, Britain's Bannister demonstrated the casual approach. In the mile, he loped along with a nine-foot stride. When he decided to take over, he spurted to the front. In characteristic English fashion he glanced over his shoulder, once almost took a header running too close to the track's concrete curb-and still won in 4:11.1. It was the second-fastest mile run on U.S. cinders this year...
...takes a while for an American, even a Northerner, to become accustomed to the social equality of the races in Brazil, but he cannot fail to be impressed by the casual harmony of interracial relations. In fact, one might say that there are no "interracial relations" in Brazil; they all are Brazillians, not Negroes or Latins or whites or blacks...
...casual look at the little that is known of the English team over here would seem to indicate that the British will derive a distinct advantage from the method of scoring that will be used...
...right, so I call a girl at Radcliffe. The movie at the UT stinks. You go to town and already it's a big production. All I want to do is throw a little talk around--casual talk. And private. Private. Why the hell can't I? It's my room isn't it? I pay rent on the hole. It would be pretty nice to find a girl who could listen to Brunis records with you. All right--so that's not all. So you smooch a little. They do it in the best repressed families. Or hasn...