Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something About Ohio. The audience interrupted MacArthur 28 times during his 35-minute speech to applaud his slashing attack. But what really touched off the crowd was a seemingly casual reference to Ohio-"a state which has contributed so abundantly to America's leadership both past and contemporary." Added MacArthur: "Indeed, indications multiply that this leadership may even increase in the not-too-distant future...
...five minutes at a rapid clip. A good many of those who last out the five minutes period have too high a pulse beat at the end and so fail the test. Men are assigned to special exercise classes until they can pass the test with the properly casual pulse beat...
With more formal polls of the impressions of Summer School students due in Sever Hall this week, the CRIMSON undertakes a more casual survey of the heterogeneous assemblage that make up the Yard community in summertime...
...Casual is the word for Nashville's principal contribution to contemporary U.S. culture. Ever since 1925, when Grand Ole Opry got started, young men with guitars have been lounging into town to seek their fortunes on the sprawling, leisurely 4½hour broadcast of mountain and prairie specialties. Among those who found fame: Opry Alumni Eddy Arnold, Ernest Tubb, Red Foley and Roy Acuff, all of whom now boast six-figure annual incomes. Citified publishers and record companies-realizing that in the wide-open spaces of the U.S. a good barnyard ballad can outsell a bistro blues every time...
...case of innocence unhinged by a rage to live. Perhaps the Riviera will bring her out of her dreams. It does, of course, with the unexpected help of the French mechanic. He disappears into some wild blue yonder, leaving her with a child, and his casual farewell crashes all Eve's myths and completes her cure...