Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They swapped cavalry stories in the Oval Office and reviewed the international scene while riding Lipizzaners along the banks of Virginia's Rappahannock River. But casual as it may have seemed, Moroccan King Hassan IFs visit with President Ronald Reagan last week was productive for both sides...
...corners of society, wherever anybody is ax-grinding, arm-twisting, backscratching, sweet-talking. Political blather leans sharply to words (peace, prosperity) whose moving powers outweigh exact meanings. Merchandising depends on adjectives (new, improved) that must be continually recharged with notions that entice people to buy. In casual conversation, emotional stuffing is lent to words by inflection and gesture: the innocent phrase, "Thanks a lot," is frequently a vehicle for heaping servings of irritation. Traffic in opinion-heavy language is universal simply because most people, as C.S. Lewis puts it, are "more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things...
...casual observer strolling through the Yard on the morning after housing assignments arrive would think the Quad the last place in Cambridge to have a housing shortage...
...joys of the inestimable Harvard Experience Twenty of the 41 obligatory commuters--local students accepted for the Class of 1986 only on the condition that they find their own housing have angrily complained that they will miss out on the non-academic education gained from dorm life and casual campus activities...
...fight heavy weight crews in the East gather each year for a senes of casual late-season regattas such as Saturday's Adams Cup. Harvard's narrow, one-second victory (5.55.6) over Navy and a much slower Penn boat this weekend, leaves them alone with undefeated Yale as the favorites for the Eastern sports Later this month...