Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cross-examinations, the Senator made some interesting statements. He admitted that his investigating subcommittee kept no records of its executive sessions and that it called Kamin in 1954 without any written evidence at all. It seems that McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Francis Carr ran the committee by a casual gentlemen's agreement under which a tip that some person had worked on a Government project, if it looked juicy enough, might lead to a subpoena and to blanket questions like, "Who else worked with you?" This is exactly what liberals have been saying about McCarthy's investigating methods for years...
...British proved to be the most casual of mothers. They set up a dockyard at Valletta harbor, and for more than a century, the Navy Estimates were the most exciting thing that happened in Malta, as well as the chief source of livelihood of its 320,000 inhabitants. But the island hardly interested the British until, in World War II, it became the center of bitter struggle with the Italians and the Germans for control of the Mediterranean. Then, as a British air and naval base, with the Maltese dug into its golden limestone, the island held out against...
...interests are more active than her quiet appearance would indicate. Holly has a special interest in the outdoors, ranging from tennis, swimming, and water skiing to casual hikes just to "look at everything...
...children, his lifelong friend. Associate Editor William Forbis, substituted for him in Argentina. Last week the two friends met again briefly in New York, just before Payne flew off to his new assignment. They compared notes on the frustrations of reporting a paradoxical land of blustering dictatorship and seemingly casual living, where bullyboys riot in the streets and solid citizens pretend not to notice. Both Payne and Forbis had their tense moments with the bullyboys, and both were arrested and questioned by Juan Perón's police...
Like ex-patient Boisen, he was shocked at the casual insensitivity of the clergy who bothered to visit mental patients at all; they would preach on such irrelevant subjects as foreign missions or potentially explosive texts, e.g., "And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out." But there was more to it than simply giving the patients understanding, says Bruder. "I found in what Boisen called 'the wilderness of the lost' you discovered the needs of people at the ground level, naked both emotionally and physically. It was a whole new field...