Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four groups and could then apply the appropriate kinds of restraint? You must be dreaming. You say that no one "could have known which windows [thrown objects] came from." No trick at all when you ask hotelmen to spot for you, as the police did. You are also casual about thrown objects that start from the fifteenth floor; they strike hard, and it is homicidal to throw them...
...more casual survey by the Harvard-Radcliffe Young Democrats of 800 College and Radcliffe students--including 300 freshmen--found even more disaffiliates. About 80 per cent said they wouldn't vote for any of the candidates--major or minor--if they could vote. There was no significant difference between freshman and upperclass responses...
...decision to doll up stewardesses on transcontinental domestic flights in "foreign accent" uniforms has proved something of a flop. Having hired the Wells agency away from Braniff, TWA next month will instead start outfitting its girls in what it calls "modernistic nonuniform uniforms." These will consist of casual mufti ensembles, with accessories to suit the individual stewardess' taste...
...fired." Stuff like that. Lehner: And when the girl goes out of the room, he takes a leather portfolio, looks around, opens it up and starts doodling some very silly, funny little things. And the announcer says: "Introducing a new executive status symbol-Flair. To the casual observer, Flair is a dignified, serious, executive pen. But when you're alone, Flair reveals its true identity as the executive play pen. The greatest doodler in the world. This Christmas give him the executive play pen, Flair...
...Grosjean just one trip, in 1954, to discover that the Corsican menhirs, which had been known to natives for as long as anyone could remember, were "in fact finely sculpted works of art, but no one had taken the trouble to take a good look at them." Nor were casual visitors to blame. Most menhirs were buried deep in the maquis (brush), some of them face-down or savagely hacked into two or three pieces. Describing his most important find, a 160-ft. hillock with 17 sculptured menhirs at Filitosa, he says: "It was an amazonian jungle. We crawled...