Word: casualize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hijackers and have opposed the use of sky marshals because of the danger of a shootout in the air. British policy places top priority on the safety of the passengers and calls for pilots to comply with hijackers' demands whenever possible. The pilots are also disturbed by the casual attitude of the Italian government, which did not get around to drawing up a bill making skyjacking illegal until two months ago. The most hawkish position on skyjacking is that of the Israeli government, which advises El Al pilots: "There will be no deals, ever, regardless of the risks involved...
...candidate and Jack Anderson, his chief tormentor, on the same program. But that day Meet the Press interviewed Democratic National Chairman Jean Westwood and Deputy Chairman Basil Paterson, who said that "it would be a noble thing" for Eagleton to resign from the Democratic ticket. That not-at-all casual remark undermined Eagleton's position and made his effort on Face the Nation irrelevant...
Clark Faster said his initial involvement with TM was casual almost a by product of his other interests and pursuits. He starting meditating two summers s ago while he was working to earn enough money to go to India. The previous year as a sophomore at Harvard he quickly tired of majoring in Government and living at Dunster House and then of majoring in Anthropology and living in one of the Harvard Cooperatives...
...Pieces, the tomcat of Carnal Knowledge, Nicholson has already displayed remarkable range. David, so thoroughly introverted, so tentative, is the most demanding role he has had so far partly because it does not give him the chance to do what is easy for him -display sudden rage, ruthlessness, a casual, cunning kind of cool. Here, wearing a slowly unraveling cardigan and squinting nervously behind a pair of glasses forever smudged with fingerprints, Nicholson invests David with real turmoil and vulnerability...
...casual musicians stopped in mid-scatter and formed a word. They played a few bars of a song. Bang. They scattered into another word. Another few bars. Bang. They scattered again and ran back into the stands. "Is that it?" Trevor asked in disbelief. "Yeah, wasn't it great?" Trevor didn't answer. He sighed. He evidently didn't think...