Word: offhand
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face up to what I might have wrought. It was possible that some completely innocent sales rep, flying from New York to Chicago as part of an unsung but fundamentally noble effort to support his deserving family, was suffering agonizing hunger pangs because I had made an offhand remark in an uncharacteristic moment of revulsion...
...shirt. But this isn't just any T shirt. "It's cop humor," shrugs Pat Gutkoska, whose print shop is across the street from the Chicago Police Eighth District Station. "The cops that see it know it's a joke." The department's official take on the shirt is offhand disdain. Some police say the word has come down from Mayor Richard M. Daley that wearing or selling the T shirt could lead to disciplinary action (a police spokesman denies the threat). 'When asked about it by a local TV reporter earlier this summer, Daley muttered, "It's just some...
Furthermore, Mansfield's remarks about black students being capable seemed rather patronizing and insincere, especially because in a recent New York Times Magazine article, he indicated that he believed that too many black students were enrolled here. Most noxious of all was Mansfield's offhand insinuation that blacks might have genetic intellectual deficiencies. Like most of Mansfield's statements about race, his recent essay was so ridiculous that it reeked of racism. The staff should have pointed out that Mansfield's ignorance and bigoted blather caused this latest controversy in the first place...
Stella, in Stella, picks up a copy of Exhale, reads 50 or 60 pages and drops it with the offhand comment that "I don't know what all the hoopla is about and why everybody thinks she's such a hot writer. Hell, I could write the same stuff she writes." Sure, Stella; in your dreams. Which are what pop novels, even largely autobiographical ones, are all about...
...even helped his old boss, Senator Fulbright, make some money by cutting him in on a land deal in 1974. Fulbright was thrilled, and word soon spread among the Senator's circle of McDougal's financial acumen. Later McDougal spotted a small plot near Little Rock, and, almost offhand, mentioned it one day to Clinton. "You ought to buy this, Bill," McDougal said. Clinton knew of McDougal's success with Fulbright and was interested. He was still paying off student loans he'd taken to finish Yale Law School, and he was $24,000 in debt from an unsuccessful...