Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter adopted a new, casual air of modesty. He even managed to address his opponent as "President Ford" instead of "Mr. Ford." Carter vowed that he would focus on the issues and not on the character of his opponent-whom he at one point conceded to be a "good and decent...
Herrnstein said that not all of Burt's facts may be correct, because Burt "was very casual about reporting his findings." But those findings were correct, Herrnstein said...
...aggrieved spouse to sue for "criminal conversation." That was the doctrine James Fadgen, then 30, a Pittsburgh teacher, invoked when he discovered that his wife Bonnie, 26, was sleeping with George Lenkner. His suit asked for compensatory and punitive damages of an unspecified amount. The case aroused more than casual interest because Lenkner, 31, was the Roman Catholic priest who had presided at the Fadgens' 1972 marriage. When a Pittsburgh court found in Fadgen's favor, Lenkner appealed. The state supreme court, in a 3-to-2 decision this month, avowed that it holds "the institution of marriage...
...large numbers of female entrants indicates a growth in women's crew, and reflect the overall momentum the sport has gathered--a momentum due in part to the casual attitude many take toward the sport...
Ironically, the general is the slave of his own power, unable to control its con-sequences or the mechanisms that set it in motion. Even his casual remarks are interpreted by his police as orders to kill. And, he is at the mercy of time, nature and death like anyone else. In the end, death comes and calls him by a name not his own, but he responds. Faced with the mortality he tried to deny, he finally recognizes another uncontrollable force--love...