Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those days have faded," says Dieter Ludwig, a West German photographer who was expelled from Saigon when the new rulers decided to reduce drastically the number of non-Communist journalists. Saigon has been plagued by a near epidemic of theft and lawlessness. At first the Communists were quite casual about patrolling the streets; soon they began making rounds heavily armed and only in groups of at least five. Lawbreakers, when caught, have been dealt with harshly. Saigon's Liberation Daily, the only newspaper authorized to be published in the capital, has reported cases of soldiers capturing a thief, quickly...
Where many alumni do exert a unifying force is in their more casual interests about who gets into the College from the Philadelphia area. Almost all of the Harvard Club's officers were gleeful to see that Harvard this year admitted 23 students from the area, an increase of six over the previous year. A common strain of complaints issued by those involved with the Philadelphia end of admissions is that the metropolitan area should not be lumped in a region including the prolific Long Island school district, because the grouping heightens the competition for places to its fiercest level...
Touch and Go remains casual about matters of plot, however, and gets lazy in its joking. There are too many Italian-army gags, for example, all having to do with stupidity or cowardice. Even more drastic, the film has an insinuating cuteness, like De Broca's much-cherished King of Hearts. De Broca works hard at being likable, and makes it, finally, alto gether too easy...
...well-tempered bustle moved me right along, past the village's new school--the sort of whitewashed adobe place where you could see the kids standing in the doorways being casual. The municipal stadium was next door--a five-foot-high grass-covered embankment keeping the soccer field from running out into the market, the center of things, where I was going...
Woodside had a lot of ground to make up. For starters, he had to learn Chinese and other languages, none of which came naturally. They're hell," he says blundy. So as late as 1963, Woodside had only a casual, non-scholarly interest in Vietnam, where Ngo Dinh Diem seemed firmly entrenched despite rumblings of dissent among Buddhist monks...