Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capitalized on his own popularity, toiled at making friends for Eastern with every after-dinner speech, newspaper interview and casual handshake. He also collected an array of enemies. Organized labor hated him.-for his wartime criticism and his free-enterpriser's independence -almost as bitterly as it hated Senator Robert A. Taft. Its feathers were not smoothed when Rickenbacker reminded them that he had been a working stiff too, and had been glad to get a dollar a day._
...Robert Howard's slim pear wood Semaphore was there to show how elegant three-dimensional abstractions can be. Peter Lipman-Wulf's Horse and Man looked as if it had been made for fun from the contents of a carpenter's scrap barrel. Despite its casual air it was as tense and tightly constructed as anything in the show...
...conspiratorial secrecy. He tapped a pencil on his desk and kept the tap water running in the washbasin to foil, said he, any hidden microphones. McCarthy confided the name of the "Russian agent" to only the committee, and to a few newspapermen. Soon, every cab driver and casual Washington visitor knew that McCarthy's "top Russian agent" was Owen J. Lattimore, director of Johns Hopkins' School of International Relations...
Slowly, and almost invisibly, like a river bed shifting, the nation's foreign policy was changing its course. Its direction was fundamentally the same, as was shown in a casual remark of Harry Truman's at his weekly press conference. Was he planning a mission to Moscow? No, he said, not as long as he was President (though he might like to see the place later on as a tourist, he added). This was no time to go running off to Joe Stalin...
...Athlete's Deception" is base don the knowledge that the gem of the Bermuda social set in the smooth, casual rugby player. Seated comfortably in a hotel lobby, preferably that of the Elbow Beach Surf Club, and having engaged in the morning change of clothes by means of the first two articles mentioned above, the adventurer undertakes quiet conversation with available bunnies...