Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jake work in an offhand manner that once shocked but now delights the Navy. They scoff at the ordinary appurtenances of big business and like to call themselves "the embattled farmers." Roy & Jake have one secretary in common, and she sits down the hall. They seldom dictate letters; when Roy decides that a letter must be written, he painstakingly writes it out in longhand, sometimes puts in a whole day on a draft...
Despite this offhand management Grumman is adept at finding his way through the jungles of governmental red tape. What he cannot cut, he blandly ignores. When the Army tried to get rumman to camouflage his plants, he objected, said it was unnecessary and would interfere with production. When the Army insisted, Grumman said: "From the-air, we find the plant by flying over to Mitchel Field and taking our directions from the runways there. Maybe you ought to camouflage them first." The Army quit bothering him. The Navy lets Grumman do things much as he wants, sure they will...
...Hello." He turned his eyes toward me when I peeked in, and he said in a typical British manner of offhand friendliness, "Oh, hello...
...America's hard to see," said Frost. He read his own latest attempt at grasping the American spirit, "Record Stride," introducing it as "just an offhand poem only one deep thing...
...regular corporal's guard of a half-dozen reporters were lounging in the White House lobby when Presidential Secretary Steve Early called them to his office. He merely handed them a mimeographed sheet of paper. "I think this is a pretty good story," he said in an offhand manner. That was all there...