Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benjamin Fletcher Wright, a redheaded Texan with an easy smile and casual manner, had spent more than half of his life at Harvard when he agreed, in 1949, to make the move to Northampton to become the fifth president (all of them have been males) of Smith College...
Gales of Questions. At Dulles' crowded press conference the pressures blew up gales of hostile questioning. Dulles himself seemed as relaxed and casual as usual, but he had not gone far before he began to signal a new emphasis on conciliation that inevitably set off worldwide headlines (DULLES GETS FLEXIBLE-LONDON...
...rocking chair, he looked like a middle-aged man at the end of a long day, but when he opened his mouth, he was the master entertainer. Bing Crosby's topnotch ABC special last week swayed along with rocking-chair ease; its spare (but expensive) sets and casual tone made the usual frenetic TV variety shows look sick by comparison. With Crooner Dean Martin, Gospel Shouter Mahalia
...casual acquaintance of Papa's, a gambling-house shill, lures him to the roulette table, and the cops raid the joint. Poor Papa is booked at the station, and the boy must run home to fetch his identification card. From the sight of his mother in the midst of a difficult accouchement, the notion of the pushcart peddler is banished. All that remains for the boy to do is get Mama to the hospital, spring Papa from the jug, and reunite the whole gang in time for the birth of baby sister...
...They [the chapters] proceed from my feeling that the greatest novels (as compared with the greatest poems or plays) seldom receive the full technical analysis they deserve, and the full, not casual rendering of theme. My aim is to talk as rigorously and fully as some critics talk about poems...