Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Without casual spectators around, but with 20 stop-watch-clicking officials timing his every stroke, Buffalo's George Breen boiled through the water of Yale's 50-meter practice pool and broke his own world record for the mile (19:40.4) with a fast...
Amid well-raked gravel walks and faultlessly kept gardens in the suburbs of Darmstadt (pop. 125,000) stands one of the most unusual convents in Germany. No casual visitor to the Sisterhood of St. Mary would notice what makes it different; like most Roman Catholic nuns, its 58 sisters wear wedding rings symbolizing their spiritual marriage to Christ, use religious names, make confession regularly, and practice a special devotion to the Virgin Mary. What makes them unusual is that they are Protestants...
...delivered a spoof of Marlene Dietrich's seductive See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have. Only a fractured heel, which she got hopping over a low railing on Home, kept her from dancing. As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual. "Sometimes," she explains, "the cozy, casual chums of TV are all as relaxed as cooked spaghetti, but most of what you see is the result of arduous, careful preparation...
...students spontaneously adopt American mannerisms: they dress in the casual Midwestern collegiate style, sip Cokes and malteds at a hangout called Uncle Sam's, annually elect a Miss A.U.B., a Miss Lebanon, and a May Queen. But beneath these superficial Americanisms, the fever of Arab nationalism seethes in every corner of the campus. "My friends," says one student, "are interested in two things: politics and sex, and sex comes in a poor second." Professors estimate that while only a handful (about 20) are Communists, at least 60% of the student body are violently pro-Nasser, and almost all support...
...Summer School Employment Office, meanwhile, has organized a regular and casual part-time job service and will continue both to look for and to assign jobs for the rest of the summer session...