Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixed-pitch versus controllable-pitch propellers, his writing is clear and forthright, and it isn't hard to sense the assurance of a man who knows his business and enjoys talking about it. When he talks of engines and wing-structures, his book is absorbing even to the casual reader...
...hours last week a rumor gutted the Minneapolis morning Tribune and evening Times-Tribune. Pressmen huddled together outside the Tribune building on Newspaper Row in Fourth Street. Reporters, some panicky and angry, some stunned or recklessly casual, gravitated toward the bars-to hold a wake for their jobs...
Flotsam has brief incidents, descriptions, and mere casual statements that have the impact and brightness of poems: Kern's exquisite pleasure, under shelter of a fortnight's residential permit, in asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner...
...white-bearded Leader Pechanatz hung a picture of Gavrilo Princip, the assassin who shot and killed the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo in 1914, thus started World War I. In a corner, on the floor, lay the bleached skeleton of a Chetnik hero. Said Leader Pechanatz, with a casual wave of his arm: "His mother comes to see me every few weeks. She often asks whose skeleton that is. I have never told her. I am hard, but not that hard...
...Casual, talented and loaded with Irish luck, the Crosby career is also notable for making a bum out of Horatio Alger. For in 37 years, Bing Crosby has shed a confusing new light on the problem of how to be a success. He has never studied music or voice or pounded the pavements looking for work; yet jobs kept turning up-each a little better than the last. He always falls uphill. Year after year he just sings, and people pay fortunes to hear him. Over the radio, Bing's voice is worth $7,500 for one hour...