Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reserve to Grow On. Ike's emphasis on growth in freedom was no casual afterthought. White House advisers are well aware that the Democrats are starting to take up the refrain that Eisenhower's refusal to expand public spending has retarded the growth rate, when, say the critics, it should be expanding to keep pace with the Soviet Union. Pundit Walter Lippmann took off from the President's message most vehemently, accused the President of putting "private comfort and private consumption ahead of national need . . . The challenge of the Soviet Union," he wrote, "has been demanding...
Meanwhile Spears drove Taylor's car from Tampa to Dallas and on to Phoenix. Somewhere along the way he put in a call to a casual professional acquaintance, another naturopath named William Turska, who owns an isolated little white stucco house 39 miles north of Phoenix. Spears wanted to know if he could drop by for a visit. Turska said sure...
...ornamentation, often unaccompanied; every consideration is excluded except the row and its transformations into lines and combinations of lines. This might be the point to ask: Does the piece have anything to say? The formal, declamatory style is not particularly friendly, nor are the most ingratiating sections meant for casual listening. I found Threni frequently affecting, although in parts the gray was unrelieved. More hearings might easily produce a different view...
...presidents for their crooked quiz shows, i.e., that they were merely duped by deceitful packagers; this, said Rogers, is neither a "practical excuse nor a legal one." But if he found broadcasters and advertisers crassly commercial, Rogers also found the Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Trade Commission incredibly casual. Beyond its licensing and rulemaking authority, the FCC has "investigatory power fully as great as the Special Committee on Legislative Oversight [which dug into the quiz scandals and the payola problem&]." But when a contestant on the now defunct quiz show, Dotto, charged in a letter to the FCC that...
...enough," said Fields, "but the nephew with all those flies! It's enough to make anybody sick." Told of Tracy's exit from the Constitution, Cartoonist Gould, possibly borrowing inspiration from another of his current characters-Fifth, a hood who invokes the Fifth Amendment even in casual conversation-said nothing...