Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play has not a casual but a thematic plotlessness, and not an unintentional but a planned garrulity...
...good friend. Sloan, a graven-faced Connecticut Yankee, practiced prohibition for years, wears a stickpin, dresses with a flourish, disdains tobacco and sniffs at sports. Bradley is a roly-poly (5 ft. 6 in., 160 Ibs.) Briton who arrived in the U.S. at the age of seven, a casual dresser who often appears in mismatched pants and coat, a keen southpaw golfer and a Scotch drinker...
...case of the extension of the "peacetime" draft, three months before Pearl Harbor, the majority margin in the House of Representatives was a single vote. Even today, the cries of indignation and alarm which may be heard constantly on both sides of the political fence seem to the casual observer to contradict any assumption of popular agreement...
...treasured by every major museum of Europe. In an exhibition of his oil sketches and drawings, collected by Harvard's Fogg Museum and Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library and on display in Manhattan last week, the master's touch is evident in even his most casual work...
...rapid Argentine was being remarkably casual with a big if. In all the Grand Prix circuit (including Le Mans. Italy's Mille Miglia and Britain's Grand Prix at Silverstone), no course is tougher on cars than the 5.2-mile tangle of flat-turn runways and taxiways at Sebring's abandoned airfield. Drivers have to hit the brakes and shift down at least 19 times for each lap (there is one tight hairpin without sign of bank and a wicked assortment of other unbanked turns). Clutches, gearboxes and brakes take a frightful beating...