Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life magazine illustrated this point all too well when it printed a Picture of the Week more than ten years ago showing a Wellesley girl walking down a street in dungarees with shirt tails hanging out in the accepted casual style of the day. The girl was photographed unawares, however, as a long standing Wellesley rule states that no girl may "pose for any picture or contribute any information to the press while under the jurisdiction of the College unless (she) has permission from the Director of Publicity...
...today's yardstick, this colonial industry was little more than a group of independent printers. Under rigid governmental censorship, Boston's books were either reprints of classical treatises or pious puritanical sermons. The colonial reader sought moral edification rather than information or casual entertainment...
...casual reader cannot check the accuracy or objectivity of Time, dependent as he may be upon them. His memory rarely stretches back past last week's issue. However, since Time has committed the fatal slip of binding its back issues and putting them on reserve in the library, its objectivity can be examined. We have decided to do this by comparing Time's reporting of the same men and the same events during the Democratic Administration of 1946-52, and the Republican Administration...
...casual observer might not have detected the difference in the way each President handled the question of whether he would seek a second term: "The subject of Harry Truman's 1952 intentions came up again in his weekly press conference. The President wasn't saying, just acting deliberately mysterious. It has become an unprofitable inquiry and a stale joke." (July...
...Nenni sat with Khrushchev on a terrace overlooking the Black Sea, and companionably discovered that he and Nikita were as one in many things. German unification (both against), a European "security" pact (both for), etc., etc. According to Nenni, the closest they came to discussing Italian politics was a casual remark of Khrushchev's: "And, by the way, how is Togliatti feeling these days?" Nenni rather implied that Khrushchev was just being polite-Togliatti has yet to receive an invitation to Yalta, or even to Moscow, from Russia's post-Stalin bosses...