Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...
...case of a resident who is considered to be hiding something or is "not frank enough," casual visitors will call on him, each using a different form of approach. These visitors, assigned by the police, may consist of Youth Corps League members, party members, unit chiefs, members of the Sino-Soviet Friendship Association, activists from peasants' or workers' organizations. This will go on until the man is cleared or arrested. Said a middle-aged housewife who came to Hong Kong a few months ago: "You people outside always pity us for our short rations, dirty rice and scanty...
Sections of the track were periodically removed so that dashmen and hurdlers would have a clear lane to their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
...recent book, The African Giant (TIME, Oct. 3). The tone of The Nylon Safari is prevailingly lighthearted, the pace is readably headlong, and there is notably little spilling of blood or guts. Indeed, the Hemingway-Ruark axis of hairy-chested literary Tarzans may be somewhat miffed at the casual kiss-off Tiny Cloete gives their favorite outdoor sport. The whole safari business, U.S.-born Author Cloete strongly suggests, is about as rugged nowadays as camping out with a Boy Scout troop. From the time the Cloetes outfit themselves in brand-new hunting togs in Nairobi, Tiny makes it amusingly plain...
...academic world of linguistics and mythology has come what at first glance appears to be a half-serious fairy tale, filled with non-existent characters in a non-existent world. Yet even the most casual reader will immediately see that, while imaginary, the whole creation is not only elaborately developed but extremely serious...