Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sizable Seven" linemen (average weight: 216 lbs.) scornfully brushed aside U.C.L.A.'s specially designed trap plays, held U.C.L.A.'s offense to a humiliating minus 13 yds. on the ground. Led by German-born Team Captain Gerhard Schwedes, a slashing right halfback, Syracuse rolled up touchdowns with offhand ease. Score: Syracuse 36, U.C.L.A. 8-convincing proof that Syracuse was the finest college team in the land...
...town look, 1910 flavor, horse-and-buggy pace. Its drinking is confined to a likable bachelor and a would-be sex-bad boy; its passion consists of the same boy's book-fed notions of it. Even in its parading, the show never turns brassy. Its tunes are offhand but full of lilt; and those who fill its period roles are mostly actors rather than musicomedy performers. That is why, at their best, they perform so engagingly. Take Me Along itself has less the effect of a full-scale musical than of a show much enlivened with music...
...unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting of the heads of government in the near future, we shall wait until the time is ripe...
Boganda was the son of a witch doctor and he liked to make offhand references to the fact that his father's rites included the eating of human flesh. But Barthélémy Boganda was educated in the white man's missions and later polished in France. He rose to head one of the most primitive of France's colonies, but he emerged as a key African figure...
Long, Long Ago. In equally airy fashion, Khrushchev abandoned the Communist contention that the Western powers had no legal right to maintain forces in Berlin. In one offhand remark designed to render needless all the careful legalist arguments Western chancelleries were preparing, Khrushchev said, "We recognize that they have these rights that stem from the capitulation of Hitlerite Germany 14 years ago, but that's a long time ago." If the West did not voluntarily surrender these rights, he warned, Russia would sign a separate World War II peace treaty with the East German Reds. Then-by Russian logic...