Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young novelist, Lamkin has put his story in the words of a middle-aged man. Henry has grown up with the Richardsons, as one of their "poor cousins." All his life he has lived in the double shadow of the Richardson grandeur and his own mother. In a languid, casual prose that reflects his own insipidity, Henry tells his cousins' story, while he himself is changing from an absolute disciple of the noble Richardson myth to a disillusioned old bank clerk who decries its "false majesty...
...years ago they changed their name, made some replacements and got the band into high gear. They made a hit playing a "casual"-a high-school country club dance. Then they landed a date playing once a week in Beverly Boulevard's Beverly Cavern when oldtime Jazzman Kid Ory was taking his night off. Comic...
...Social Security covers 44 million or 29%. It excludes the self-employed, agricultural and casual laborers, domestic workers and employees of Government and nonprofit groups, most of whom would be covered by national health in surance...
...Tuesday conferences with his three assistant superintendents, he was a casual but cautious chairman. "Let me ponder that for a while, fellows," he would say when a ticklish problem came up. Often, chin in hand, he would seem to be thinking out loud ("Now, I'm just supposing that . . ."). Then, when he had weighed all the facts, he would make his decision...
...inherited includes five high schools, eleven junior high schools, 63 elementary schools, a special school for crippled children. It is a $40 million domain that comes alive each morning with the shouts and cries of 56,000 schoolchildren flooding through its classrooms. On the surface it is a casual world of blue jeans and T-shirts, sweaters & skirts, bobby-sox and loafers, of jalopies, motor-scooters, bikes, and a litter of candy-wrappers inside almost every desk. Pupils call each other "meal" or "mope," .tell each other not to be a "squeegie" or a "sizzle." They slouch through the halls...