Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spent the next day and a half in casual puttering at home. Then, on Sunday afternoon, he announced that he was going on a business trip to Buffalo; he left at 4:30, caught a ferry to Manhattan, and vanished into the stone maze of the big city...
Facing newsmen at an open-air press conference in Key West, suntanned Harry Truman seemed as cool and casual as his floppy blue slack suit. For the time being, at least, the President just wanted to forgive and forget...
Saturday Review started out with an observation that any casual reader could make: the lists disagree on many books. Example: in 1948, the Times had The Naked and the Dead in first place for 19 weeks; the Tribune had it there for only ten weeks. One reason, said S.R.L., is that the lists are based "on figures obtained from relatively few stores in relatively few cities . . . without reference to the most elementary rules of statistical sampling." The Herald Tribune, said S.R.L., gets its reports from 67 stores in 50 cities (actually, says the Trib, 60 to 80 stores report each...
...article has been mixed. Fun-loving students of the progressive college are pleased to see that their pleasant life has been selected as a model for briefing cadets on the vagaries of the outside world. But local fraternities, who have found that visiting cadets adapt to Amherst's casual college life with incredible rapidity, are even now wondering if the article may touch off a march of joy-bent gray legions through the quiet Massachusetts hills...
...book of etiquette for the British Foreign Service would have been unthinkable before the war; a high proportion of fledgling diplomats then carried the mark of Eton, Harrow or Rugby and the casual polish of Oxford or Cambridge. Last week, however, the word got out that the Foreign Office had sent to Britain's embassy freshmen throughout the world 300 copies (marked "confidential") of a manual of polite procedure.* The elegant vice marshal of the diplomatic corps in London, Marcus Cheke (rhymes with peak), 43, with 14 years of embassy life in Brussels and Lisbon, had drawn...