Word: disinterest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This statement seems typical of the city administration's disinterest in the University's over-night parking problem. Through the existing dilemma has been under "discussion" at City Hall for the past five weeks, students' cars continue to be ticketed and even towed away for illegal parking, when no legal spaces exist. Some officials, nevertheless, are "altting on" the only constructive measure which has been proposed in the last year to alleviate the overcrowded conditions...
...alarming portion of young people in Cleveland (where I live) seem rude, insolent and very vague about what is right or wrong. This includes seemingly trivial things: shouting at people walking by, rude jokes about girls, exaggerated "sex-interest," exaggerated "money-consciousness," and disinterest in anything worthier than crime novels, gangster films and certain magazines . . . ADOLF A. PERLES Cleveland...
...Your Nov. 15, 1948 story interpreting the election returns has been worrying me for almost three years. Usually accurate, you seem to have missed entirely one big reason why many voters stayed away from the polls. It was not disinterest, but rather lack of a choice of candidates. We (and you would be surprised at how many there were of us) simply did not want to feel responsible in any part for the election of either Truman or Dewey...
...Mason's novels are wonderful fun to read, despite a disinterest in the fine points of human character, and even despite his high-spirited approach to the English language-which he seems to regard as a lariat for the roping of great strong verbs, soft lovely nouns, and even helpless little prepositions. Nevertheless, Author Mason can keep a story rolling like a navvy with a barrel, and that one perilous, amazing skill makes it hard to ignore what's happening...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of H.U.E.R.A., last night expressed disinterest, and remarked that as far as he is concerned, the A.F.L. has given up its attempt to reorganize personnel here...