Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach new destinations of his choice without his tool creating new locations from where he's barred," he writes. Anyone who has ever endeavored to circumnavigate New York's Kennedy Airport on foot will immediately recognize his point. The Port Authority, in this case, has decided that even the casual visitor must ride a bus in order to merely enter the terminal next door. "The use of the bicycle is self-limiting. It allows people to create a new relationship between their life-time and life-space," he says. "Their new tool creates only those demands which it can also...
After the race, a casual observer surveying the destroyed Princeton flotilla, remarked, "Princeton sure rowed like a bunch of tiger-lilies today...
...paramilitary National Republican Guard held out, together with the detested D.G.S. (Direcção Geral de Segurança) secret police, the army was clearly superior. "We have all the tanks, and we have the military experience we learned in Africa," said one rebel officer with casual contempt. "The police and the National Republican Guard have only a few obsolete armored vehicles...
...street from the cemetery where his father is buried. But The Hag himself rarely is in the office. "As long as he's got a fishing boat and a pole, he couldn't care less about the business," says Bonnie. At home, Merle is a somewhat casual father of four children, but he is not at the mansion all that often either. "Maybe it's too fancy or something," says Bonnie. Whatever it is, Haggard tends to drop out of sight for days at a stretch, then calmly reappear. Aloof from all but a few friends...
...gentlemanly undistinguished degree from Cambridge, Adams has also served in Viet Nam as an Army officer with a certain detached distaste. Both he and his wife Marjorie, a diplomat's daughter from north-central New Jersey's horsy country, wear their status with the proper casual confidence. For Adams, at least, this confidence is rudely shaken when he takes his family for an extended stay at the Rufus Arms, "the least pretentious and most expensive hotel in Lawnsmere," a pseudonymous Surrey town only a Times-crossword-puzzle by train from London. As Mark tells it in a sadder...