Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit is casual, rough-&-ready, informal-a city of bright neckties and T-shirts, bowling alleys, towering commercial hotels, overstuffed clubs buzzing with shoptalk and big deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...
...Casual travelers in London's busy Victoria Station saw a strange sight for a bright afternoon: scores of elegant ladies & gentlemen, decked out in full evening dress, were scurrying to catch the 3:45 train for Lewes, Sussex, 51 miles away. Their destination that day last week was the 135-acre, exquisitely landscaped Glyndebourne estate, their objective, the opening of the biggest postwar Glyndebourne Opera season, Britain's unique Mozart festival...
Most Britons were less casual about the case. It stabbed sharply into the vitals of British pride and security. "It is the same sort of wound," wrote the weekly Time & Tide in a soul-searching article last week, "as that caused in the U.S. by the opening phases of the Hiss-Chambers duel . . . What reality is there now in our English assurances, in whose subtlety and strength we have taken such quiet pride? . . . Here are no lately nationalized refugee scientists, no fly-by-night fanatics making somber rendezvous ... If there is a particle of truth in the sinister rumors...
Throbs & Ecstasy. Penguins are naturally sociable, and they have many gestures to express their amiability. Some gestures are as casual as hat tipping or perfunctory smiles among humans. Others lead to serious "pair formation." When a male and female are getting better acquainted, they go through a series of intricate ceremonials, each of which has its place in the growth of their relationship. First they bow formally, with outstretched flippers. Later, when they feel more intimate, they shake their heads, make a vibrating sound, or stretch out their necks and squawk. As their fondness ripens, the lovers preen one another...
...Detroit pitchers who used to burn them in to Richards when he caught for Detroit's 1945 world champions. Catcher Richards used to blister the ball right back if he thought they were not trying hard enough, and he still growls when he thinks of baseball's casual losers: "They blow a game and they're not even mad about it." When the White Sox lose, Freshman Manager Richards implies, someone had better show some indignation...