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Word: casuals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perimeter only a mile long and 4,000 ft. wide-normally base-camp elbow room for only an 800-man battalion. Passage in and out was safe only by helicopter or 100-vehicle heavy convoy. The Viet Cong had peppered the area with so many mines that almost any casual step could prove fatal; scores did in the first week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Making Contact | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...shed their "housewife mentality," but she herself is obsessed with tiresome questions of "womanliness," "fulfillment," and political power for women. She says, with some pride, that she's been "a witch of Salem for four years, since my book came out. People are still cutting me up." She conducts casual conversations like fact-finding sessions. Drinking tea with the women law students, she quizzed them, not about interests in law or their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan, director of the American Civil Liberties...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Betty Freidan | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

...inner group exerts leadership in a low-key, almost casual way, seeks no euphoria of power. Its members commit themselves essentially because the chance to use their resources for the public good is so temptingly sensible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Extracurricular Clout Of Powerful College Presidents | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

...casual observer, the heavy snow, gale winds and high tides that struck most of the Northeast last week seemed to have turned Rhode Island into a disaster area. Like homeless refugees, long lines of crying children clinging to their parents snaked through the gloom. But it was not the storm that turned out the Sunday crowds. Rhode Island was engaged in a well-planned exercise in preventive medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infectious Diseases: End Measles Now | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

...smooth sweep from the china on the tray through the woman's hands to her lips spatially expresses a measured social gesture. The painting, on view at an exhibition of her works in Manhattan's Knoedler gallery, is an example of her ability to distill drama from casual domestic scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Portrait of a Lady | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

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