Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been fullback on the football team, and the midshipmen had given him the nickname he still carries: "Old Hookem." (On the gridiron, where he was cool and harddriving, the midshipmen used to shout: "Hook 'em, Ghormley! Hook 'em!") In the classroom he had an air of amused disinterest, but he wore on his blouse the gold star of the distinguished cadet, was graduated twelfth in his class...
Previously the dates for the dances have been chosen by members of the various committees, but this arrangement has been marred by the comparative disinterest of chairmen over dances which do not directly concern them. "If the dates were chosen by a central committee made up of representatives particularly interested in dances, each House would be assured of adequate expression...
...worked for four reasons : 1) the astuteness of Joe's managers; 2) the promotional genius of Mike Jacobs and his Hearst henchmen; 3) the change in the U.S. attitude toward Negroes since Jack Johnson's day; 4) Joe's naïveté, natural reserve and disinterest in liquor and tobacco. By the time Louis climbed into the ring to fight Camera, he was a living legend to his people: a black Moses leading the children of Ham out of bondage...
...packages of razor blades. The American in a Latin country tends to insulate himself from contact with the people of the country; the social customs seem to him absurd, and he makes little effort to understand them. He is not interested, and usually is not backward about showing his disinterest. Germans perhaps feel the same way, but if they do they are quite generally able to hide it. They marry Latins relatively more frequently than is the case with us, and are careful to choose a girl of good family. The sum and substance of all this is that...
Washington. Despite Franklin Roosevelt's professed disinterest in State races this year, Administration forces worked like nailers to put up a New Deal slate in the primary. They succeeded. Their two top men, rugged Monrad C. Wallgren (for Senator) and Gubernatorial Nominee Clarence C. Dill, drew two rugged Republican opponents: Gubernatorial Draftee Arthur B. Langlie, aggressive Seattle Mayor, and ex-Democrat Stephen F. Chadwick, American Legionnaire, who is riding the Willkie coattails hard...