Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: ... I think Americans should all be ashamed of themselves for having lost out on all the years of Mr. Robeson's "exile." . . . While convalescing at an Army hospital after my return to the U.S., I struck up a casual acquaintanceship with a young Negro private. I asked him: "How did you feel when the doctors told you you were coming home?" ... He replied: "This may sound awful to you, but I hated the thoughts of coming back to my home and having to resume living among people who hate us colored people so much." ... He had been...
...Casual customers who plan weekend parties will be happy to take your slow-movers off your hands. It's a good idea to sell no popular brands on the weekends. As a matter of fact, customers who ask for whiskey on weekends can very readily be switched to rum or wine...
Mark Twain was so casual a writer that 33 years after his death chunks of his enormous output are still being discovered. Latest Twain student to strike pay dirt is Lowry Charles Wimberley, English professor at the University of Nebraska. In an article in the November Atlantic Monthly he unveils a rare, neglected sample of Twain's rollicking burlesque, which he found in Nebraska's State Historical Society files...
...Poop. Slangy and informal, Ted has a deceptively casual attitude toward "poop" (planning and paper work). When training in the desert for the Ploesti raid Colonel Ted used old five-gallon oilcans for filing cabinets. One day he startled the office staff by striding in with three cans, dropping them on the floor with a vast clatter, and saying simply, "There's the poop...
...Tall, casual Archie, who won the Croix de guerre in World War I, stuck to his Wall Street bond business, worried about Government extravagance, watched Daughter Theodora kick up her heels as a professional dancer and son Archie Jr. kick up his as an American Youth Congress leader. Archie Sr. finally enlisted. He landed in New Guinea with the 41st Division. Last week he was heard from...