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Word: casualness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Good thing that coda, which is titled Gratitude, comes at the end of Frank Morgan's album Mood Indigo. Hearing it first and taking it at face value, casual listeners might figure they were in for an overdose of New Age good vibes and reach for the off button. That would mean missing out on some elegant alto sax, the kind of jazzmanship that combines the hip and the heartfelt in an accessible, up-to-the-minute sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lifesaving Sounds | 3/26/1990 | See Source »

...school yards." He wants to create a work camp in the West Texas desert where youthful drug offenders would get a chance to reform without obtaining a police record. He suggests doubling the number of state narcotics agents, establishing special drug courts and stiffening sentences for casual drug users...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cowpoke for Governor? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...record straight. Let's dispel some of the common misconceptions about crew that fester among Harvard undergraduates. Let's expose the patently false motives for rowing that have clouded the minds of casual observers at Harvard. Let's take Harvard rowers as they are and the rest of the College...

Author: By Kenneth A. Katz, | Title: Row, Row, Row Your Boat | 3/17/1990 | See Source »

There are many misconceptions about the pledge process, one of the most common being that it is used as a vehicle to define one's identity. But pledging, like AOA, involves much more than the casual observer might think at first. Its ultimate goal is "the better making of men," beginning with the line, and continuing throughout the life of AOA members...

Author: By Timothy S. Gramling, | Title: What Pledging Really Is | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...rumbled through the stubble and jolted off into the air, choked with awe and fear. Above the old town, you could see the high school and your home and beyond them the vast, quilted cropland. Your world and the way you looked at it changed forever. The pilot, casual in his open, checked shirt, let you hold the wheel for a few seconds, and just then you were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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