Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...imprecise use of the language often made it difficult to know just where he stood, as did his offhand treatment of serious subjects. It also laid him open to misinterpretation. Is Goldwater really anxious to plunge the world into nuclear war? Of course...
...money: the Kennedy campaign is far better financed than Keating's. One Keating aide estimates offhand that Kennedy is spending twice as much as his opponent for television. When the votes are counted, what the candidates do personally may have little meaning in comparison to how often and how well they can project themselves over the airwaves; and Keating--both quantitatively and qualitatively--seems unable to match Kennedy in this competition...
...GERMANY. Khrushchev scandalized many comrades by his planned trip to Bonn in January for conferences with Chancellor Ludwig Erhard. Coming on top of his offhand treatment of Walter Ulbricht's East Germany (the long-promised separate peace treaty has yet to be signed), this caused the suspicion that Khrushchev might want to make some sort of deal with West Germany, a country regularly denounced as neo-fascist by Moscow propaganda...
Whose Trigger Finger? What are the facts? Within the context of this year's politics, Goldwater first got himself into nuclear trouble in October of 1963 when, at a Hartford, Conn., press conference, and in his ordinary, offhand fashion, he suggested that NATO "field commanders" (plural) be given greater discretion. about when to use tactical nuclear weapons in the event of attack...
Plainly, the state's offhand attitude invites the kind of freebooting enterprise for which Board Chairman Kidd's namesake was notorious. Salvage operators have already reported the appearance of well-equipped-and armed -claim jumpers, as well as thousands of lone-wolf divers who spend their weekends swarming hopefully around the wrecks that others have located...