Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pooh with Alterations. Casual, wisecracking Michael Di Salle, 43, does not give off those portentous creaking sounds that Washingtonians expect from a big wheel in the Government. He does not look much like one, either. He looks more like a jolly caricature-a real-life Winnie-the-Pooh, with slight alterations made at Walt Disney's drawing board. He does not reach quite high enough (5 ft. 5% in.); he weighs too much (215 Ibs.); he balloons out too far at the middle (44-in. waist). A bashful mustache perches below his nose. His mouth, always ready to smile...
...next hour and a half they talked -smoking, sometimes laughing, sometimes passionately serious. A casual passer-by would have taken them for a group of friends chatting together after dinner. But the minister who sat with them, the Rev. Clinton J. Kew, was hard at work practicing his own brand of pastoral counseling...
...growing frenzy, Loretta sets about trying to get the letter out of the mails before anyone can discover that her husband is dead. With his body lying in the upstairs bedroom, the casual routine of suburban life suddenly becomes perilous at every turn. Almost every move she makes unwittingly buttresses the lie in the letter-and forces her into ever greater risks of self-incrimination to keep the letter from reaching the district attorney...
...casual reader of the papers, seeing the sensation caused by the "fixing" of college basketball games in Madison Square Garden, may wonder why it's so easy to debauch young Americans these days...
...When the temperature skidded to a chilly 25-below on Friday night, even the rabid outdoorsmen (and women) in the huge crowd willingly ducked for shelter. Indeed, indoor sports are supposed to share top billing with the other variety, but after a couple of evenings on Fraternity Row, the casual visitor gets the idea that the snow and ice and stuff is only so much window dressing. Many a ski bunny got no closer to a snowy slope or slick pond than the front stoop of Zeta...