Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most characteristic thing about a police state is that people 'disappear,' " wrote Reporter Schmidt. "It is difficult for the casual visitor [to understand that] when he enters the office of a business associate the desk in the corner is empty because the secretary who occupied it was arrested last week, or that the girl at the opposite desk is the police spy who denounced her, and who will shortly make a report to the police on the visitor's conversation with the manager...
...Industrial Designer Henry Dreyfuss had planned her fittings, which will take until next January to complete, to combine luxury with some of the casual comfort of a modern U.S. home. Features: staterooms with sofa berths which make them convertible into daytime sitting rooms; "penthouse" apartments (living room, bedroom, two baths, two dressing rooms and private terrace); air-conditioning throughout, including the roomy quarters for the 578-man crew. There are shops, restaurants, cocktail bars, a gymnasium, nursery, theater, library, swimming pool and, to make Americans feel at home, a soda fountain. With the Independence and her twin sister Constitution...
...Dallas' fast-growing fashion trade. The industry got its big start in the mid-1930s, when the wave of U.S. unionization sent many a small garmentmaker seeking refuge in open-shop Dallas; soon it had an $18-million-a-year volume. It concentrated on sport clothes and other casual wear in big demand in mild-weathered outdoor-loving Texas. With World War II, the Dallas garment industry hit the big time; last year it provided jobs for 10,000 and produced a sales volume of $60 million...
...overseas. As the bill came out of conference with the House, some Republicans thought that it did imply a guarantee. Ohio's Robert Taft, coolly indignant, declared it "an absolutely new bill" to which Connally, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, had asked the Senate to give its "casual approval...
...talked willingly. Did he know Fuchs? No. Had he served as a Communist agent? No, certainly not. The questioning went on insistently for eight days. Gold never lost his composure. But discrepancies developed in his story. He had denied ever being west of the Mississippi. But one day, in casual conversation with agents about his favorite American cities, he told how much he liked Santa Fe, N.Mex...