Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be awfully messy by Monday," said the Eliot man, no longer casual...
...which he is still very adept, but Skelton is not as funny as usual. Since there is virtually no plot, your reaction to the film depends upon how well you like the songs and Astaire's dancing. To me, Astaire's light-footed work on the boards and his casual acting and singing make any picture he is in worth seeing...
...Skills. As a first step, the patients were moved to big, airy, first-floor wards with a view of the river's tug and barge traffic. Instead of cluttering the place with terrifyingly complicated equipment, everything was made as casual and simple as possible. Each patient was put to work for an average of five hours a day, learning or relearning the "100 average daily living skills." Each was assigned a card listing the skills to be acquired (e.g., walking, turning on lights, opening doors, turning over in bed, combing one's hair). When one skill was mastered...
Lloyd Clark had been headmaster of Kiskiminetas Springs School in Saltsburg, Pa. for only a few months when he got the jolt. It came in a casual conversation with Cornell's President Edmund Day at the Kiski-Cornell freshmen football game...
...Stretch on the River is a slight and rambling saga and its humor runs largely to wisecracks, but it has a fine, easy familiarity with river life and describes its spell with casual, vernacular effectiveness. Though the book is no Huckleberry Finn, it has some of Mark Twain's own feeling for the rugged, easygoing river hands on the Mississippi...