Word: casualness
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...believe that the public silence surrounding this issue typifies a broader silence which has contributed to the perpetuation of a far more violent and pernicious form of oppression. The second thing I learned last week is this: One of my acquaintances, whom I used to describe as a casual friend, is a date rapist. Probably many of us could tell similar stories; I have no proof of it, since I learned of the incident second-hand and I do not know the victim's name...
...interview yesterday, the detectives involved in the investigation said Hogue gained access to the stolen property through his work as a "casual employee" of the Mineralogical Museum...
...reason Ripken has attended ten consecutive All-Star games. He is arguably one of the best shortstops of all time. Not a flashy shortstop; not a man who makes the evening news often. Cal's battles are fought in silence, through an unparalleled sense of positioning and a casual completion of every possible out--every...
Apart from the Crimson's dubious reporting of the story, AALARM found the comment of Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett with which the article closed extremely ironic. Jewett claimed that a student would be exempt from College discipline for tearing down posters if the incident were "casual" and done "out of frustration." Such a policy, if adopted as a matter of precedent, would give license to every frustrated student at Harvard to tear down with impunity any poster which happened to annoy him, as long as he could claim that his action was sufficiently "casual...
...having offered a public apology to the group which he had offended. His crime? To have removed a "reserved-HRGLSA" (now the more "inclusive" BGLSA) sign from a table in the crowded Union. Burke was prosecuted mercilessly by the college administration for his apparently unforgivable (although inadvertent and certainly "casual") crime against one of the "in" groups. We need not remind the administration of the not-unforeseeable consequences of its zealotry...