Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon supported the defense's contention that Stans had not explicitly requested Vesco to make the gift in cash-a key point in the case. Nixon told how Vesco, a casual acquaintance, had asked him to find out from Stans how he should make his contribution-in cash or by check. At the time, Nixon was employed by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. Nixon recalled how he had waited for Stans on March 29, 1972, in the Metropolitan Club in New York City, sitting back in a corner and worrying that his single Bloody Mary...
...wasn't going to say it was wrong. And for all I know, he wasn't wrong. Maybe it did save lives, ours and theirs." Not only does this statement ignore the mass of historical evidence that contradicts this notion with which Miller is certainly familiar, it is too casual treatment of one of the greatest tragedies of modern times for a biography of the man responsible for the event...
...details of the memorial have been made public and as their implications have become clear, it must now be readily apparent to even the most casual observer that locating the Kennedy Memorial Library in Harvard Square would be an environmental disaster...
...protagonists of Badlands -Kit Carruthers, 25, and Holly Sargis, 15-are casual about everything. Holly chats pleasantly with the victims before Kit executes them with the same care and concern he might have for a loose shoelace. Kit and Holly could be called callous except that both of them are far distant from any recognizable emotion at all. They are pathologically detached, macabre mutations of their time...
...Died. Anne Klein, 51, trend-setting designer of women's fashions famed for bringing sophistication to casual clothes; of pneumonia following a virus infection; in Manhattan. Petite and canny, Klein rose to prominence by injecting a new elegance into the traditionally cutesie junior-size dresses. She later broadened her scope to include everything from sweaters to shoes...