Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly the mood shifted; the mild, casual air of the inauguration gave way to a glimpse of the future. For five minutes the street was clear as the marchers and the cavalry moved slowly on like figures from a military past, re-entering the past. Armored cars and soldiers on motorcycles began to stream by. Then three tanks, more armored cars, 42 light tanks, 18 medium tanks, another big batch of armored cars, trucks carrying pontoon bridges, kitchen trucks, trucks drawing six-inch guns, eight truckloads of anti-aircraft guns-the machines of war. They went by fast...
When it comes to a question of discovering tastes, more than a casual sales talk is necessary, so the shops have adopted their clubby atmosphere. A couple of comfortable chairs, a radio, and an engaging personality at the head of the sales force will sell more custom suits than the pressure of the more conservative stores. The salesman is such an integral part of the organization that when one changed stores a few months ago, his clientele went along with him. And when another was in the hospital for twelve weeks, his store sold three suits instead of the usual...
...casual observer finds the fire station, located in front of Mem Hall, a Republican cartoon of W.P.A. inaction. Everywhere shirt-sleeved men are loafing. In the third floor recreation room a dozen firefighters play penny ante, some of the more energetic shoot pool, and a few others watch traffic along Cambridge Street. Down the hall in a library-common room another group smokes, reads Esquire and the New Yorker, occasionally studies. Off the kitchen, where a stoutish chap is raiding the refrigerator, the Bonfire Band struggles through "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" in preparation for the policeman-fireman ball...
...been said that the advance permissions rigama role is designed to prevent "casualt droppings-in." What's the matter with casual droppings-in? And as for the at-least-three-persons requirement, a disgruntled student remarked at the time of a parietal furore in 1936: "Most of the suites have more than one room, and you will find that two determined couples are just as effective...
...Ivens marched his crew onto the small dairy and crop farm of lean, leathery William Parkinson in the rolling hills of eastern Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about REA's cooperative units for bringing electricity to remote areas...