Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...formal announcement, released at the White House, showed considerably more awareness of what the bomb meant to humanity, in good and evil. But a few weeks later he was again treating it with an oddly offhand air. He chose a fishing lodge at Tennessee's Reelfoot Lake, an informal "bull session" with newsmen against a background of bourbon and poker, to announce that the U.S. intended to keep the secret of the bomb to itself...
Some Washington newsmen, who knew that dickering for another Big Three meeting had gone on as recently as six weeks ago, were taken aback. Pundit Walter Lippmann wrote an angry column taking the President to task for another "offhand remark." In a querulous tone he asked whether the President intended to turn over General MacArthurs administration of Japan to the UNO Security Council-an eleven-nation body in which five nations have an unchallengeable veto...
...wants to moor in the San Jacinto River as a battle memorial. But negotiations have been held up for lack of money for a mooring. Half seriously, last week, the Lone Stars were suggesting that every Texan in service be fined $1 for bragging about Texas. Thus, they figured offhand, a million dollars could be raised...
...good many years, Canada's Liberal Government has clucked maternally about the joys of free trade, the selfish shortsightedness of high tariff walls. Last week Canadians discovered that the Government does not always practice what it -preaches. Buried deep in the budget, and bypassed in a 42-word, offhand way by Finance Minister James L. Ilsley in his recent budget speech (not of "major importance," said he), was a new 20% tariff wall-increased from 5%-on seamless-steel boiler tubing...
...liked to discuss problems and answer questions with short, offhand, decisive statements. But Washington was learning that the statements were not always followed by action...