Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bear Traps & Wing Flaps. While the report made the casual rounds of 70-odd Capitol committees and agencies, it was Oklahoma's Democratic Senator A. S. (for Aimer Stillwell) "Mike" Monroney, among all his colleagues, who most clearly sensed the challenge and grabbed it. As chairman of the Senate Aviation Subcommittee, Mike Monroney ran the report through his committee and got legislation moving. With single-minded disregard for political pitfalls and bureaucratic bear traps, Monroney thrashed his way through the congressional jungle with expert leadership. One member of his safari: Pete Quesada, whose good World War II friend...
With this final honor, Gossie retired from the show ring, was carried off to the Venables' home in Atlanta. There he will lead a life of casual ease, and devote himself to the task of improving his breed (stud fee $150). Business should be brisk, for Pekingese fanciers are willing to overlook the single fault of Westminster's champion. He snores...
...Community Hospital. Several years later, at a charity party for children in San Francisco, he found himself kidding with a young man whom he assumed to be a fellow entertainer. When he turned out to be a Reform rabbi, Davis was delighted. "Everything he said had meaning . . . Our casual conversation began to develop into a deep, soul-searching experience. Once more, my curiosity about Judaism was set aflame." The rabbi recommended several books. "At first, reading those books confused me. I would read a few pages, close the book, and try to figure out what the writer was saying. Little...
...train, dictating memos and reading reports all the way. He usually works seven days a week and well into the night, breaking off for a frequent tennis match or bridge game. Spencer Love figures that work is fun, and the brightest textile era looms ahead. One sign: the "casual living" trend-which means brief shorts, old blue jeans and no stockings-is giving way to the consumers' desire to "trade up" to more fashionable dress and home decoration...
...serious students, who will naturally have seen it several times, suffice it to say that careful restudy always holds considerable rewards; for the casual dabbler Shane offers an unparalleled opportunity to gain a better understanding of many of the most important cultural phenomena of our times...