Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strict disciplinarian with the troop formations under his command. He is a bear on uniform neatness, a bug on such items of military smartness as saluting. Once in Eighth Air Force headquarters he took General "Tooey" Spaatz down because West Pointer Spaatz, steeped in the Air Force ways of offhand efficiency, had banned saluting in the corridors as a damned nuisance...
...Sovereignty." After this offhand reference the press conference came to a close. The blueprint had only been shown the press for a minute. But all the reporters saw plainly enough exactly what the President wanted them to see-the clever use of the word "integrity...
...living room is almost filled with a huge rectangular table, covered with maps. That is his desk. At it, in front of a coal fire, he holds the all-important conferences to which he invites officers with such offhand orders as: "Come on over and see me" or "Better drop in tomorrow...
...Pegler himself took one of the most eloquent swings at columnizing: "Of all the fantastic fog shapes that have risen off the swamp of confusion since the big war, the most futile . . . the most pretentious is the deep-thinking, hair-trigger columnist or commentator who knows all the answers offhand and can settle great affairs with absolute finality. . . ." Since writing this, says Fisher, there are "very few answers [Pegler] has not attempted to supply offhand. He is currently concerned with postwar planning (he's agin it) and with interpreting the nation's attitude toward the future (he sees...
Beneath their annoyingly impeccable manners the British were annoyed. Irritation over clumsy U.S. ways of springing delicate international mines finally became vocal over the President's offhand announcement of the disposition of the Italian fleet (TIME, March 13). Last week, Britons wanted Cousin Sam (lately, and off the record, they have been calling him "Uncle Spam") to know that they did not like his style. They chose their foremost forum, the floor of the House of Commons, gave Winston Churchill a bad half-hour answering polite but insistent questions from both sides of the House...