Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President and his Administration moved and planned, but not enough to still the storm of criticism across the land. "The basic reason we're behind the Russians," cried a major defense contractor, "is that we haven't gone all out." Electronics and airframe experts angrily recalled the casual attitude of Defense Secretary Wilson toward research and development...
Khrushchev was deliberately casual about the satellite itself ("they phoned me and told me ... I congratulated the entire group of engineers and technicians on this outstanding achievement and calmly went to bed"), suggesting that the Sputnik was the least of the rocket wonders the Soviet had up its sleeve, and that in view of these the West's bombers and bases were already useless. "If you study our latest proposals, you will no longer find any mention of control posts at airfields ... It is useless to create control posts to watch obsolete airplanes." He developed the point with even...
...Boris Godunov, The Lay of the Host of Igor) Favorsky, 71, whose prints have a turn-of-the-century, storybook quality but whose draftsmanship rated a "jolly able, jolly competent" from one British artist. Most original works were by Leonid Soifertis, staffer on the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil, whose casual hand turns out cartoons that rate a Soviet belly laugh, e.g., a dig at infant prodigies that shows a child with huge bull fiddle, both of which have to be carried on the stage. These were rare high points. The show was best described by British Artist Paul Hogarth...
...more-than-casual observer it would appear that the French Fourth Republic is going to hell in a handcart. Plagued by inflation, colonial wars, and internal instability, France seems paralyzed by a persecution complex of major dimensions...
...Student Employment Office supervises some 1200 students working on regular part-time jobs, and supplies many more with short-term "casual" jobs. Although these casual jobs are usually the more interesting and unusual ones, it is the regular kind which are the more important and which account for the close connection between the Student Employment Office and the College's Financial Aid program...