Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...urinalysis results do not include in their sampling the 12,000 G.I.s who were either arrested for various drug crimes or turned themselves in for treatment during the first six months of this year. Nor do they register those casual users strong enough to kick their habits temporarily and pass the urinalysis test. Jarre himself admits his figures represent only "men who had become dependent on opiates, including heroin." He said that surveys taken in April and May of men below the rank of. buck sergeant showed that about 10% or 11% had used heroin once. But at least...
Karamojong women may sport a beaded apron or cowhide mini-breech-cloth, but the men will suffer nothing more than metal bangles or an eagle's feather in the hair, earrings and a few copper neckbands. Concerned that such casual garb would make Uganda appear backward, the country's ebullient President, General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin, decreed that the tribesmen should don shirts, trousers and shoes. The order struck the Karamojongs as an act of naked repression. Village chiefs who tried to read Amin's declaration ("Nakedness is neither in your interest nor in the interests...
FROM the moment of departure, the tour of National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was understated, underpublicized and played with such casual routine that the press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2½ days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...
...Street (on Saturday nights) to the beery wassailing of the Daughters of Bilitis, a militant lesbian organization quartered in a loft near by. There are no boutiques, no sleazy head shops hustling Moroccan love beads made in Jersey City to tourists from Duluth, no taxis, no clubs. For the casual visitor, the most baffling thing about the loft district is that it does not have a "scene" at all; nothing apparently exists behind its nobly looming iron facades except art and cotton waste. But what disappoints the tourist delights the resident artist as he sits on his fire escape...
...traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, who in turn shuffled him to the Cincinnati Reds. After two seasons, the Reds shipped Johnson to the Angels last year-even though he had hit .312 and .315. Pegged as a malcontent and a troublemaker, Alex has frequently distressed his managers by casual defensive play and refusal to run out ground balls. A proud, taciturn black man, Johnson enigmatically credits his unhappiness to "racial slights and insults both on and off the field...