Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...casual kibitzer, cribbage is as baffling as the nebular hypothesis. Even though one may know that its main object is to form various counting combinations (like Pairs, Runs, Fifteens) and register them with wooden pegs until someone gets 61 (or 121 in a double round), one can listen to its time-honored lingo for hours without catching...
...nervous Nellie to be panicked into witless sales is tweedy, fiftyish Scot Gifford, Edinburgh solicitor, chairman of eight British investment trusts, director of 22 British companies. Nor will he be a sucker for casual Wall Street advice. Twenty-five percent of the investment portfolios of many British investment trusts is in U. S. securities, and Scot Gifford has long known his way around the Street as well as around the City...
...Extends unemployment insurance to salesmen and casual workers...
Slowly his smile faded. Getulio Vargas put down his spoon, opened one Rio de Janeiro paper after another, tossed each aside. In most, Year III of his Estado Novo began with no more than a few casual lines on page one. In some, it was buried deep inside. President Vargas' breakfast and his day were ruined...
...King when it appeared in a letter to the London Times at the start of the war, but this letter did not say who authored the lines, and George VI simply used them without further research. The London Times readily turned up the letter, but it was only a casual epistle from a Mrs. J. C. M. Allen, of Clifton. Bristol, who said last week that she copied the lines from a 1938 Christmas card sent her by a Miss Dorothy Glover, also of Bristol. Miss Glover said her card was based on lines scribbled by her late father...