Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual visitor in the House gallery could have guessed that a critical moment of the 77th Congress was at hand. Speaker Rayburn merely drawled: "The question is on agreeing to the motion of the gentleman from Missouri." There was no debate. As casually as if it were considering a new post office, the House voted 205-128 not to agree with the gentleman...
...week Queen Wilhelmina visited the Dutch-descended President of the U.S. at Hyde Park. Then, wearing her store-bought clothes from Pittsfield, she motored to the island that Dutchman Peter Minuit bought from the Indians for $24, a city that might have been under her domain but for the casual fall of New Amsterdam 278 years...
...pool; Monday and Thursday evenings she probably sings in the chorus; she sometimes goes sailing down at M. I. T., or to dinner at one of the Houses or Graduate School dorms; and she goes on shopping trips into Boston and on weekend Jaunis to the beach. There are casual dates in the evenings, and more formal ones, as well as dances, on weekends...
...work on Mutual in a big way. Out over WOR, Mutual's Manhattan outlet, went a startling satire-a monologue on "The Strange Disappearance of the Mutual Network." Listeners heard razor-edged remarks on Mutual's recent loss of The Lone Ranger (TIME, June 8), a casual, sometimes funny flow of gags about Mutual executives. ("Manager Fred Weber may be forced to wear 59? shirts.") Nothing quite like it had ever gone...
...were), "in the event of military action." Rumors were fed by cancellation of Army weekend leaves and the request that OCD workers stay home on Memorial Day. The War Department increased the general buck fever by asking editors and publishers not to bannerize bombing raids, asking columnists to be casual...