Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...casual visitor Harvard Hall doubtless seems only another agglomeration of lecture halls, with narrow staircases and ill-lighted rooms that make it appear slightly more grotesque than some of its neighbors. Yet for fifty years this one building was the center of College life in just about every sense of the word--here for the students of seven score years ago were gathered his library, his dining hall, his social center, his museum, his laboratory, his chapel, and his lecture room. But the passage of time has seen the College expand by leaps and bounds, and gradually...
...many of the features I've sent back are getting printed, but I suppose a lot of the tactical stuff gets play. Most startling to a civilian eye: the total destruction of some towns; the filthy, disease-ridden, starved condition of most off the Koreans; the GI's casual acceptance of battle and death while he bitches about the mud, the dust, the food, the officers, the hills that must be climbed, the months and months away from home; the politicking in the Army; and what seems to be the uselessness of this war as we go back and forth...
Instead of a formal state document, what the Senate got turned out to be largely a casual collection of jottings by a State Department secretary who had overheard some of the talks. Nobody was present when the President and MacArthur talked privately at breakfast on Wake, and no stenographer was present officially at the full-scale conference later attended by both staffs. But at the big conference, Ambassador Philip Jessup's secretary, pretty Vernice Anderson, had been sitting quietly in a tiny cubbyhole off the conference room, waiting to type up the communique. Fresh pineapple was laid...
...first question went to the heart of the Christian doctrine of the natural sinfulness of man-though Rector Ribble phrased it in casual, man-in-the-street language. Doing their best to interpret the theological issue in the poll's terms, 245 parishioners declared that people "by nature" are "good" or "more apt to be good than bad"; only 21 could bring themselves to say that people are by nature "bad." But 272 were firmly orthodox in declaring their belief in a personal rather than an impersonal God (one came out for no God at all), and 271 accepted...
...plump brunette dancer Margarita Carmen Cansino became a slim red-haired actress named Rita Hayworth, she has striven purposefully to live up to her rising station in life. When she dropped Husband No. 1, Eddie Judson (who also served as a valuable business manager), she contented herself with the casual observation: "I didn't have any fun." When she divorced Husband No. 2, Orson Welles, she felt called upon to explain somewhat more precisely: "I just can't take his genius any more." But when it came to explaining the decline of her romance with Husband...