Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place before a felt-covered reading stand, held arms high in the air to acknowledge cheers. When the demonstration subsided, he cut through formality to wish the Congress a happy new year on behalf of himself and Mrs. Eisenhower. In the gallery, Mamie took a bow. Still smiling and casual, the President turned to the rostrum behind him for timely birthday greetings to Vice President Nixon (45) and House Speaker Sam Rayburn (76). Then, the smiles giving way to solemnity, he turned to the business at hand: his sixth State of the Union message. When he concluded, the nation...
...million in retail sales. But success attracted thousands of fly-by-nighters who tricked out rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...
Wine-Soaked Roof. Although used for endless entertaining, Palladio's villas were meant for what that luxurious age considered casual living. Wide windows and huge doors opened on fine river views and prospects, tempting water gardens and statuary-decked lawns. Linking the central, porticoed mass to grounds were long colonnades on either side-a device which, whether repeated in Ireland, England or Virginia, appears to set the building harmoniously in the landscape...
...producing anywhere near their proportion of leaders. Of the 96 U.S. Senators, there are, for example, only ten Catholics; of the 50 so-called business leaders announced by Forbes magazine last month, only two are Catholics, and one of these two, Henry Ford II, is a convert. Even casual observation of the daily newspapers and the weekly news magazines leads a Catholic to ask, where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...
...dean of pledges in Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, does a little disk-jockeying on a college radio station (KUOK), and still finds time to enjoy his own 50 albums of jazz and blues recordings. In the spring Wilt turns out for track, and though he is a little too casual about his form to suit Coach Bill Easton, he has already high-jumped 6 ft. 6 in., is expected to reach 6 ft. 8 in. with ease...