Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the call came at last, Colonel Frank H. Schwable, U.S.M.C., was wearing casual civvies at home. He had waited a long time for the verdict; it had been six weeks since the Navy court of inquiry got the last of the testimony and more than a year since the winter of 1952-53 when the Chinese Reds broke Annapolis-man Schwable to their will...
...your March 1 Art section you referred to a painting of a woman's head "attributed to Joshua Reynolds . . . Former Gallery Director Alvan Eastman thinks the actual painter was one Angelica Kauffmann." This is a very casual way of dismissing one of the only two women artists ever to become R.A.S. Angelica Kauffmann (1741-1807), though she may be thought to have had some shallowness of character, had depth in her work, and her great application to her craft was truly remarkable . . . There are . . . points of similarity in the styles of Reynolds and Kauffmann, who were very close friends...
...designed to reassure the many Frenchmen who fear that otherwise, the efficient Germans will use it to dominate the French. And the U.S. promise was explicit enough to combat the fear of U.S. withdrawal, which has been strong in France ever since Defense Secretary Charles Wilson's too-casual talk about pulling U.S. ground forces away from the Continent (TIME...
...might develop an interest, and at this point Class President Van Dusen spoke up. The result was that when Van Dusen turned up at Princeton the next year, the seminarian promptly recognized him and persuaded him to serve as assistant business manager of the next youth conference. In this casual way began the career of one of the great conferees of modern Protestantism...
Avoiding the Flesh pots. The question of which church to serve posed no problem. His lawyer father was a casual Episcopalian,- his mother a devout Presbyterian. Pit unhesitatingly chose the Presbyterian for his ministry. "I wasn't keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground...