Word: offhandedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like few other comedians, he can function as master of ceremonies before a dinner of titans and financiers and never seem to be just a fast-talking gagman rung in for the night. He carries off that sort of thing with an offhand assurance that suggests he's really one of the big tycoons who just happened to take the podium. Small wonder. That's what he is. If anyone still wonders where the yellow went, Pepsodent's aggressive young comedian of 1938 is now one of the largest individual holders of raw acreage in Southern California...
...This could be, conceivably, a time of destiny for the country and for the world," said Dirksen. He readily acknowledged his initial doubts. "I rendered some offhand opinions at the time, some of which did not stand up," he said. "I saw them recited in an editorial the other day. One must expect that sort of thing in public life. But I do not let it bother...
Nothing was said that should be written in marble, but it really was a kind of town meeting. International problems, from food surpluses to Sino-Soviet relations, were talked over in an offhand, idiomatic way. "I want to tell you, Anthony," said Ike to Eden, "that we will be there if you people ever get in trouble. You know that...
...State hand remembers why: "He was one of the bounciest and most ebullient men I have known. There was never any side to Mike, and that was refreshing in the field of diplomacy." Pearson was frequently nettled by official Washington's offhand manner to sturdily independent Canada, but just as often amused-as when he left Washington, D.C., with President Harry Truman's farewell: "I don't know why the King doesn't leave you here...
...Offhand, it might seem strange that the 70-year old Leverett Saltonstall should lead the 30-year old Edward Kennedy anywhere, but it is a perfectly natural thing to do in the United States Senate. Salty, as Massachusetts' senior Senator, was the obvious and traditional choice this January to lead Teddy up to the rostrum where he signed the oath book and officially became a United States Senator. Nobody felt any embarrassment at this or any of the other unlikely combinations at the rostrum-Dodd and Ribicoff, or Mundt and McGovern-for the ritual expressed silently what Mike Mans-field...