Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well. In the shipbuilding industry, praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss...
...third. But Europe's once strongest stock survived the plagues and the Great Fire, and it now turns the worst rage that modern war can wreak into just another trial to be confronted. In confronting it, Londoners have rediscovered their chief racial faculty, once wild, now disciplined: a casual, bottomless courage...
Irked by the complaints of casual passers-by, threatening a raid on the entry, and mass confiscation of the weapons, the Yard cops now keep a close eye upon North Thayer, and look carefully at coats for suspicious bulges...
...which implies it is a little of both--a candid enough statement, it must be admitted! But what is there in the American spirit today that could conceivably be interpreted as a desire (or even a feeling of obligation) to wage a religious crusade? Absolutely nothing--as the most casual observer knows perfectly well. Nor is the tone of America imperialistic, except in certain tight little groups where it can always be found. Furthermore, contrary to the pretentious fraternalism concoted by President Roosevelt for his message to Congress in January, the spirit of internationalism in America...
Stylistically the direct antithesis of the polished type of swing that has become extremely popular, Fats and his boys have a way of playing which is so completely effortless that the casual listener often tends to disregard the band and go on to something with more flash and immediate appeal. Yet take it from me, with the exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus...