Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flaming roadblock of gasoline-soaked oyster shells in an attempt to turn the appointee back. Frustrated by a convoy bristling with state militiamen, Perez retreated to mid-Mississippi on a ferryboat, resorted thereafter to a volley of lawsuits (15 at one time), finally defeated the Jonesman in a typically casual Delta election...
...casual was the takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
...show of his father's. He also spent so much vagabond time in backstage dressing rooms that his parents decided to put him in a Berlin military school. He still resentfully recalls the wrought-iron gates closing on his smiling, light-footed mother, a blown kiss and her casual "Goodbye, my love, be happy." Later he studied piano at Stern's Conservatory in Berlin, preparing for a concert career. But at 15 he tossed off the first hint of Broadway a popular song called Kathrin ("the girl with the best legs in Berlin") that sold about 2.000.000 copies of sheet...
What Donner learned in such areas, he has never forgotten. He has an encyclopedic knowledge about G.M., a prodigious memory and a fetish for facts. If someone is vague about a fact, even in casual conversation, Donner whips from his pocket a tiny notebook prepared by his office, crammed with industry charts and tables...
...hollow center, Rabbit is ineffectual. He cannot even run away cleanly, gets lost on the road and returns-but not to his wife. He turns to his old high school coach and through him meets a girl who has slipped into casual prostitution. The first night, he pays. Then he and Ruth simply begin living together. Big, shrewd, and without illusions, she knows Rabbit is no prize, but neither is she. It is when the local Episcopal minister shows up to make Rabbit see the moral wrong of his desertion that all the weak strands of his character begin...