Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Receiving all of the 100 possible points in the prone and kneeling positions, Murphy became "a little nervous" at the possibility of breaking the record, and missed 11 points in the offhand position...
...also found that many a passenger grumbled about the offhand, grudging service Northwest gave its passengers. Nyrop played to the passengers' fancy with a host of new gimmicks that stress Northwest's "Orient" flavor. He put on Nisei and Chinese-American girls as stewardesses on domestic hops, decked first-class planes with flowers and gave passengers wintergreen-scented hot and cold towels (an old Oriental custom for soothing tired businessmen). Taken together, the changes did much to soothe Northwest Airlines...
...middle-aged hero (Robert Shafer) is that most pitiable of men, a Washington Senators fan. An offhand mention that he would sell his soul for a long-ball hitter brings on Ray Walston, a crewcut, button-down Screwtape always willing to oblige. With a flick of the wrist, Walston turns paunchy Rooter Shafer into spring-legged, muscular Tab Hunter. Despite the fact that Actor Hunter holds a bat as if it were a canoe paddle, he hits .524 and steals 976 bases as the Senators roar in pursuit of the Yankees...
...Ireland's liberal tariff and import policies for Canadian products-aluminum, wheat, lumber, newsprint, hides. The main problem is that Canada fails to reciprocate. Wrote the Toronto Telegram's Financial Editor Devon Smith: ''Ireland is another of those countries which Canada treats in as offhand a manner as Canadians claim the Americans treat ourselves...
...happened before, Khrushchev's cocky impetuosity had got him into trouble. In the days after the Iraqi coup, Nikita conducted his Mideast summit negotiations with the offhand decisiveness of a man who feels no need to consult anyone before he answers his mail. When Eisenhower's note proposing a U.N. summit conference arrived in Moscow, Khrushchev and some of his top aides were in conference with a group of visiting Austrians. "Will you excuse us?" said Nikita. "We have to draft a reply to Eisenhower's letter." In just 20 minutes, his acceptance note outlined, Khrushchev reappeared...