Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work efficiently, and not only to provide the student quickly with those books he knew he wanted, but to bring him into contact with others by placing them in open stacks right before him. And it was designed to provide him with an ideal environment for study, writing, and casual browsing. In all respects but the last it has succeeded admirably...
...construction, amusement and maritime industries, where employment is usually casual, temporary or intermittent, the law's ban on the closed shop should be relaxed. Employers and unions in these industries should be permitted to enter into agreements under which the union will be treated as the employees' representative, even before any employees are hired...
...presidential yacht two days after the inauguration, he wiped out the Philippines Marine Corps with one casual remark to Corps Commander Commodore Jose Francisco. "Commodore," he said, "I'm going to convert your marines into an engineer battalion. I want them to learn how to install irrigation pumps and pipes and go out and help people in the barrios. Let's start with San Luis, that's Taruc's home town. Let's go in there and make that a real model village...
...spread) demonstrates Cassatt's genius for imbuing the most ordinary sights with a magic timelessness. Her compositions look as casual as candid camera shots; actually they are composed as sensitively as the Japanese prints she admired and collected. La Loge (opposite) is a surprisingly festive picture for Cassatt. Curator Frederick Sweet, who assembled Chicago's exhibition, considers it her most beautiful canvas...
...casual saunter with which the British team goes out to greet the returning climbers and to hear the fate of its expedition will go down in anecdote as a classic underplay in the British tradition. When Lowe, the first of the three to come down, gives the sign for thumbs up, a thrill shoots through the audience; and when the camera picks up Hillary and Tenzing, their faces shining like those of men who have been in paradise, it is a hard heart that will not beat faster, and a hard face that will not break into answering smiles...