Word: casualness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Martinez was not blind to Koernke's faults. He confirms that Koernke made casual racist remarks and was enthusiastic in extolling the economy and technology of Hitler's Third Reich. Koernke, says Martinez, was a literal interpreter of the Bible's Book of Revelation, with a literal expectation of Armageddon. Occasionally, as Koernke went on and on about some grim fantasy, Martinez feared he "might have some sort of chemical imbalance." But the two stayed friends. Martinez was Koernke's best man when he married Nancy Wise, a home-economics student he had met while peddling chocolate-chip cookies...
...team attributed its winning ways to hard work and to the good coaching of head coach Bill Doyle and his staff. (Although to even the casual observer, it is obvious that the sheer talent plays quite a role...
...pair soon started studying together and had their first date on October 11. The relationship was casual for the two months until winter vacation, both...
...your item "Band-Aid, Pentagon-Style" [CHRONICLES, May 8], you state that it will "cost even more to entertain the troops with precise renditions of The Stars and Stripes Forever!" This incorrectly implies that the service bands merely provide "entertainment" for toe-tapping service personnel or other casual listeners. Military bands include some of the finest professional musicians in the world. As a music educator, I look to these exemplary performing ensembles as a model both aesthetic and professional for my students. The days are long past when the bands played only John Philip Sousa marches as troops passed...
...From 1992 to 1993, the percentage of high school seniors went from 17.2 to 19 percent, and college freshmen went from 9.2 to 12.5 percent," Kessler said. "A casual decision at a young age can lead to addiction, disease and premature death...