Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gilpatric regularly shows up in his office adjoining McNamara's suite at 7:30 a.m.-half an hour behind his boss. While McNamara, with an eye on the clock, slashes away at his paper work, Gilpatric sits suavely behind an unlittered desk, almost always has time for some casual talk with a visitor. When McNamara begins to whirl out a blizzard of "snowflakes"-Pentagonese for his single-page directives that often demand prompt action-Gilpatric may help dig out a snowed-under officer by getting an impossible deadline date extended...
Theoretically, Don Juan can return to Spain any time he wants to. but he takes care to make his visits brief and casual...
They tumble into bed with all the verve of the casual Californians in The Chapman Report...
...this year's Derby, Hartack could count himself well pleased -or so it seemed. His mount was Mrs. Moody Jolley's Ridan, a Kentucky-bred speedster who had won ten of his 13 starts and once equaled the world record for five furlongs in a casual, early-morning breeze...
Laconic Statement. A special circuit carried the news to Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg in Washington. The AEC relayed the word to President Kennedy, then cruising on his yacht, the Honey Fitz, on Florida's Lake Worth. The President's casual surroundings were deliberate-they were part of a major U.S. policy decision to underplay the resumption of atmospheric tests...