Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When morning arrives the details of the story become clear. A French actress, in Hiroshima for the filming of an anti-war movie has had a casual liaison with a Japanese architect. The architect tries to persuade her to remain in the city for another few days. She refuses, yet he pursues her in a strange and melancholy journey through the city. At one point she begins to tell him of an affair she had had with a German soldier during the war. The soldier was killed by a French sniper and shortly thereafter she went mad. Even...
...Hawthorn title mentioned as "recent" in the listing of "non-books," 1000 Inspirational Things, was published in 1948 by the Spencer Press of Chicago, as casual inspection of the volume itself can demonstrate...
...West. Lady Bird exercised her soft Southern drawl delivering feline vignettes on the people the girls would meet. ("She's never been a friend and never will be, but I hope she will work for the Democratic Party.") And all the way. outspoken Eunice Shriver and casual, quick-witted Ethel Kennedy quietly took notes. By the time they landed, the campaigners were well briefed...
...wily moneylender was puzzled by his casual conversation with the two strange horsemen who had ridden into Babylon that day in 539 B.C. One of the men was dressed as a servant, the other as master; yet the servant spoke like a lord, and the questions he asked were odd for an ordinary visitor. He seemed intrigued by the River Euphrates, and when he rode on. he said to the moneylender: "I am much indebted to you today, for you have shown me the way that I can open into your city." A few months later, :he waters...
Along with his mea cnlpa. Powers calmly described the making of a U.S. aerial spy-a process so casual as to shock British intelligence experts who followed the trial. Toward the end of his Air Force hitch as a first lieutenant in 1956, he was "approached and interviewed" by Central Intelligence agents. He passed medical exams. "A special high-altitude suit was made for me and tested at a special chamber. My pay was to be $2.500 monthly . . . approximately the same as the captain of an airliner.'' (From the Russian audience came gasps of astonishment.) About...