Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should I? I never visited her in the evening, and you don't wear jewelry like that in the daytime." The judge was sympathetic: "An allowance of ?40 a week taxfree, with other bills paid," he observed, "does not sound like a very mean allowance for the casual interviews they had. Miss Gray received ?38,000 over the years, a fortune in itself...
...through the windows glaring orange out of a hundred majestic black bastions, the committees are seen as they come calling, catching sophomores just accidentally attired from top to toe in immaculate tweeds, and Exeter yearbooks displayed with casual prominence...
...floor of the nine-story Ambassador Hotel in Kansas City, Mo. is barred to casual visitors. When an elevator passes the floor below or there are footsteps on the stairs, lights flash, bells ring and a guard springs alert in a room lined with pistols, riot guns and tear-gas bombs. Once divided into six apartments, the entire floor has been remodeled into a top-security weekend retreat. Its tenant: Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 28, the nonflying (by father's orders) chief of the Dominican air force...
...when he slips into the frowsy, unbuttoned atmosphere of the jockey's room, does Willie really relax. Mumbling around a sandwich while he plays a game of pool or knock rummy before a race, Willie almost seems one of the boys. His quick answers are not always cutting; the casual remark is often actually friendly. But warm spontaneity is seen so seldom that even among the other jocks Hartack has no real intimates...
...Take me to your place.'' Slowly some details emerge: he drove her from the Polish quarter of their New Jersey factory town to a cheap Manhattan hotel, later fled, left her to stare vacantly at the ceiling. The symbolism of the recollected scene-the hearse and the casual bed, death and lust-could scarcely be more heavyhanded, but it is a measure of Author Bankowsky's writing skill that the reader nevertheless keeps asking: What drove the girl...