Word: casuals
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...Manhattan. It is long and thorough, full of thousands of facts from dozens of interviews, but it is not a story as a newspaperman would send it. We call it research, though it is not as deadening as that word suggests: if careful in its facts, it is casual and carefree in the telling. The Chicago bureau is anxious not only to report the facts but to suggest a tone and mood...
...number of things wrong with the presentation of the study. Statistically, the book discusses only the most general and superficial findings of the survey, presented graphically--and occasionally ambiguously. In particular, the text too often fails to indicate which figures are statistically significant, and which are not. The casual reader may pick out seeming trends which actually do not exist; he ought to be forewarned...
Frederick the Second-Holy Roman Emperor, King of the Germans, King of Sicily, scholar, scientist, quarreler with Popes, prodigious lecher, successful Crusader, political innovator-is a blazing figure in a period in history (the first half of the 13th century) that the casual student too often slides by. The attention is caught briefly, perhaps, by Frederick's nickname, Stupor Mundi (wonder of the world), and by accounts that his scientific curiosity led him to experiment with live servants. But ahead, amplified by history's hindsound, are the first horn calls of the Renaissance. The temptation is to leave...
Although formal visits to the CEA by Soviet bloc scientists will have to be reported to the Commission in advance, no restrictions are planned for casual visits. Even if the University later learns that a casual visitor was from a Soviet bloc nation, it will not be necessary to file a report with the government...
...with murder. "I felt confident that I could not lose the case even if I conducted it standing on my head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case I've ever known," said the judge...