Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this traditional amiability is lost on the casual fan, who sees only the violence of rucks and the madness of scrums and wonders why anybody would want to play rugby...
Some plant owners see their specialists on a regular basis, rather like the twice yearly dental checkup. In West Hollywood, Lynn and Joel Rapp, who run a plant store called Mother Earth, provide regular service to casual growers and chronically worried plantochondriacs alike, charging $35 and up for weekly sessions of care and feeding of a customer's indoor garden. The emphasis is on keeping a weather eye out for disease or what the Rapps call "preventive medicine." "Mealy bugs and scale are in the air like cold germs," they warn, "Every time you open your door or window...
...fear that casual abortion will lead to worse evils than unwanted children do, but laws denying abortion only to the poor constitute class discrimination. I wish all that energy could be directed toward finding a safe, sure method of birth control...
...minor concession to students who wanted more profound changes. Most of our students still need the phony, commercial kind of motivation that grades provide. Until values change and the change is reflected in our institutions, abuse of the pass/fail option will take its place among purchased term papers, casual cheating, taking cinch courses, dropping out, and other familiar expressions of student contempt for American education...
...names that Lincoln was called, pointed out how Nixon's enemies were abusing him, then said, "But all they do is shame America ... through it all, our President stands steadfast." Writing in the New York Times, Franklin R. Gannon, a presidential aide, drew even finer lines. "Even the casual reader wary of undue comparisons will be struck by some of the pertinent and poignant political similarities between Mr. Lincoln's presidency and President Nixon's current troubles." Then Gannon declared that Nixon, by his "resolute conduct so far," had already earned some of the words of praise...