Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went back to the hotel and into the bar. I tried the conversational line again with a party of PRO officers and civilian guests. All I could get out was: "Well, I am a free man now. I just got my discharge." They were supremely uninterested but proffered offhand congratulations and then began talking about other things...
...piece of evidence was General Douglas Mac Arthur's plain-spoken statements to the U.S. press. Before he cleared the air, he had set the State and War Departments by the ears with an offhand announcement that he would soon need only 200,000 troops in Japan (he had previously estimated 500,000, then 400,000). State's overly sensitive Acting Secretary Dean Acheson tartly announced that policy was being made in Washington, not in Tokyo. Much of the U.S. press and many a citizen jumped to the unwarranted conclusion that MacArthur was for a quick & easy occupation...
...People ask me offhand to explain to them 'all about this modern art.' They want the answer in a series of pat phrases between drinks. But . . . unless you state your thesis clearly-from the ground up, you are simply adding to the sum of confusion on the subject." So writes Minnesota-born Abstractionist Hilaire Hiler in his new book, Why Abstract? (New Directions...
...cool courage and a natural, bushwhacking ability to operate with small forces always pulled him out. For the easy, offhand job he did with a rifle in holding off a unit of Russian partisans which had attacked an American platoon, he won the Distinguished Service Cross...
...help finance his radio ventures. Hartford met him, lent him the money, accepting Elliott's six months' note. As collateral, he took something which banks would not accept-shares of stock in some small Texas radio stations (how many shares Hartford could not remember offhand...