Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Dec. 13, under Production, states, "The American production war has [been 4 TIME, JANUARY 10 1944 won]." I am concerned lest the average reader receive entirely too rosy an impression from a casual reading of that article...
...adequate to .portraying The Whirlwind, hero of a best-selling romance which is rocketing screenward. In time's nick, she discovers that the book's author, a shy professor (Willard Parker), has just the physical architecture for the role. So she blandishes him into taking it, makes casual use of his infatuation with her to warm him up for the picture's love scenes...
...would be granted. Prewar France's helter-skelter system of party representation in the Chamber of Deputies would be revised, with elections on a proportional basis. And the position of the Premier and his Cabinet would be strengthened; no longer would Premiers of France be hired & fired like casual help in a Christmas-week rush. All this sounded like the kind of democracy which Charles de Gaulle might gladly head...
...World War I friend of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Dean Graham rushed to Washington after Pearl Harbor as a dollar-a-year man. He got a desk just out side the General's door. His advice was mostly given in casual chats after hours...
...battleship or destroyer man where he has been operating and the answer is the Aleutians or the South Pacific, as the case may be; ask a submariner (pronounced submariner in the service) and the casual answer is: "The Empire." The Empire is Japan. Outside of the crews of some B-25s, who did not linger, no other U.S. fighting men have ventured into that area. The submariner regards it as his routine theater of operations...