Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second day of his crossexamination, the usually dour Mitchell was so jauntily confident that he winked at newsmen as he entered the courtroom, then leaned back in the swivel chair on the stand with all the casual but tough authority he used to exude when he was the President's chief political strategist as well as his top law-enforcement officer. It simply never occurred to him, insisted Mitchell, that Vesco had given the $200,000 in order to get help in his struggle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (which eventually charged Vesco and 41 associates with perpetrating...
...decade American journalism has been the target as well as the generator of criticism. It has been accused of being first too complacent and then too alarmist about Viet Nam, of being insufficiently sensitive and too gullible concerning the counterculture of the '60s, of being first casual and then over-zealous about Watergate. Such indictments have come from within and without the craft, often at a pitch intended to shatter glass...
...unfortunate result of the administrative reforms is doctors' prejudices about women and sex have become legitimized. It is hard for a woman to object when a doctor subjects her to casual and curious scrutiny of her private life if at the same time he or she is offering the contraception the patient needs and wants. It is often hard for a woman to judge to what extent medical history-taking justifies this scrutiny...
...sloop during an afternoon sail. Kissinger finally negotiated a truce halfway through the ten-day honeymoon. In exchange for a press conference, the newsmen agreed to leave the couple alone. Summoning the press to the house of Mexican Foreign Minister Emilio Rabasa, Kissinger, dressed in a white guayabera (a casual Mexican shirt), was his usual genial self. Nancy, peering from behind oversized sunglasses, was tense, and she did not find the barrage of personal questions reassuring. "How many children will you have?" demanded a reporter. Nancy, who is, according to friends, "crazy about children," replied warily...
...Motorcycle Maintenance has some casual relationship to Eugen Herrigel's small, graceful classic, Zen in the Art of Archery (1953). Pirsig's book has more moving parts, and though it is clearly autobiographical, much of it reads like a novel. It is also a roadbook in the greasing-of-America tradition and a philosophical thriller that probes with dizzying ambition the cloven values of technological society. What makes all this unique is Pirsig's way of welding his parts to a most down-to-earth story about a troubled man and his eleven-year...