Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chief of Ordnance is to keep the Army supplied with the best & latest weapons. Before a Congressional committee, which published his testimony last week, he recited current Army shortages (TIME, May 27). The Congressmen were thoroughly alarmed by his testimony. But what might well have shocked them was his casual statement, in response to the Congressmen's cries of alarm: the figures should be "emblazoned on the sides of the Flatiron Building...
With or without the vine leaves in his hair, his sense of news verged on the occult. He knew bishops and gunmen, politicians and pickpockets, and treated both the great and the sham with the same casual impertinence. His mind was a brimming pool of assorted facts, which he turned on and off like...
Such personal notes are not random but related steps in a study of New England society, the old with the new, as searching as it seems casual. Southerner Daniels put up at the St. Botolph Club in Boston for well-preserved cultural atmosphere. Shivering in a New Hampshire April, he talked to tough farmers and foresters about the Government's work in timber salvage, learned that New England produces less than a fourth as much high-grade timber as it could and should. In Concord, N. H., he watched the State Legislature in session ("the people themselves seemed...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz robbed" (when Schmeling lost to Sharkey in their second fight for the heavyweight title); "I shoulda stood in bed" (when he found himself among the shivering spectators at a World Series game one frosty day in Detroit...
Although the moon undergoes an eclipse tomorrow evening, casual observers here will have difficulty in distinguishing any real marked change in the appearance of the celestial body even if the sky is clear, according to Robert B. Watson, of the Harvard Observatory...