Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From such casual miffs can flow great neighborhood rifts. In Berkeley, Calif., John Klein, a labor unionist, got fed up with the host of ills that infested his soil, planted his whole lawn this year with hardy ivy. Last week his status-conscious neighbors decided that this was going too far, and slapped him with a lawsuit for violating a neighborhood compact whose fine print requires that lawns and gardens be kept "in a good and husbandlike manner." None of this would have happened if only somebody in The Bronx had been more alert in the first place...
...autobiography, Headlines All My Life, Arthur Christiansen, 56, embellishes his 1957 summary of the Daily Express with some 100,000 words. The result confirms the Beaver's judgment: with his casual remark to Beaverbrook. Retiring Editor Christiansen spelled out his own philosophy of journalism and the whole story of the Express...
...contrasting names of the four men who created element 103 are characteristic of U.S. science, which wears its "democracy of the intellect" mantle with a casual air and generally opens its door to everyone regardless of national, racial, religious or social background...
Soviet Delay. Laos had become another Viet Nam, a battleground where diplomatic defeat seemed better than the risk of military forces. To reporters the President seemed casual about the Soviet delay in replying to Britain's request for a ceasefire. "I'm hopeful that we're going to get an answer," he said. At week's end Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson sought out Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to express U.S. "concern" over the silence. But the Russians could not lose: a neutralized Laos clearly meant major Communist participation in that nation's government...
...boys are interested in what Walter and I do," she continues her assessment. "They even ask about box-office grosses. Get the picture? But they're casual, too. Colin has read only about five chapters of Please Don't Eat the Daisies. He says,. 'Maybe I'll finish it?if I have to go to the hospital or something.' As for Gilbert, he is a born conformer, and giddy. Gregory's only 2^. Even so, he's a little slow. His father asked him, 'Where is Mommy?' a couple of days ago, and he looked under the coffee table...