Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Less Casual. The 40 Committee, which approves covert operations, will be upgraded and renamed the Operations Advisory Group. It will include the Secretaries of State and Defense instead of their deputies. The Director of Central Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will also belong. The President's assistant for national security affairs-now Brent Scowcroft -will continue as chairman. Attorney General Edward Levi and Budget Director James Lynn will attend meetings as observers. The Attorney General will be responsible for prosecuting any criminal abuses that arise in the course of an agency's operations...
...sojourn in Europe. Wiped out by the panic of 1873, he must barter his reputation as a respected journalist for some badly needed cash. He must also make a suitable match for his daughter Emma, 35, the widow of an impecunious French prince. Ultimately, Schuyler hopes to parlay a casual friendship with New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden into the best old-age pension of all: with Reformer Tilden the certain Democratic nominee for President and a likely victor over the scandal-ridden Republicans, Schuyler grandly casts himself as America's next minister to France...
...printed. Simenon starts with only the vaguest notions of what he will do and after a certain prescribed period of time (in the case of Letters to My Mother, one day), finishes. In that time a simple story-line emerges, sustained by the most elementary event-to-event, casual thinking. Ironically this dearth of complexity is the peculiar strength of his roman policier: the name Maigret itself connotes a kind of thinness, a stylistic baldness. Unlike the elegant Sherlock Holmes, Commissaire Maigret is a bourgeois hero, a symbol of the unpretentious common man; he uses no complicated forensics, no tricks...
Udall has had trouble stamping his identity on the voters. Full of quips at first, he seemed almost too casual to be taken seriously. Prodded by advice from party leaders and friends who know him well, he has turned scrappier, even more liberal (he would break up General Motors, as well as the big oil companies). Says one high national party official: "His organization is beginning to click and he's becoming...
...Business Week that the US "would consider using military force in the Middle East under circumstances of grave emergency--if say, the industrialized world became threatened with economic strangulation." US News and World Report later noted that "to make clear that this (Kissinger) statement was neither accidental nor casual but rather a deliberate declaration of American policy, the State Department distributed the interview in advance under its own imprimatur. And the white House subsequently announced that Mr. Kissinger was reflecting the views of Mr. Ford...