Word: casuality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swiss Alps above St. Moritz were still white with the hard-packed snows of winter, and here and there April showers had laid a blanket of fresh, wet snow on top. To the casual eye, it was beautiful. But the beauty was lost on officials at the Institute for Snow Research and Avalanches in Davos. Tests indicated that the new snow was not binding with the old. And when warm weather followed last week, and the snow began to melt, the warning flashed out quickly: "Lawine [Avalanche...
...putting an end to the endless round of staff conferences that had kept his predecessor deskbound. Instead he began to prowl his new exotic beat-and he found stories just about everywhere he went. One of the strangest local stories in recent years came to him in just this casual fashion. Lunching one day with New York City Police Commissioner Michael Murphy, Rosenthal asked about the public image of New York's Finest. Not good, admitted Murphy, and he gave an example. From the public's fear of involvement with the police came the Times's Page...
...Triborough Bridge. But the Times went beyond the event to delve into the motives of the demonstrators, came up with some memorable insights into a youth movement militantly eager to protest not just for civil rights but against practically all of society's ills. Rosenthal's casual observation while apartment hunting, that there seemed to be a lot of unmanly men on Third Avenue in the 50s, sparked a thoughtful and-for the Times-daring study of homosexuality in the city...
...male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother cutting cake for her child. At 42, he painted his expatriate cousins, the Ralph Curtises, in their Venetian palace; the painting opens volumes of casual space that would appall a European painter, such as Degas or Vuillard, used to more rigidly interlocked interiors...
...their little chairs and become little kings," says Expatriate Charles Immler, who runs a small office-cleaning business. "All the Germans bow to them, but I am not one who likes to scrape and bow." In Latin America, some expatriate Americans find that bill paying is as casual as the climate...