Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tons of rice, as well as huge amounts of oil, sugar, fish and dried milk are needed within the next five months to prevent massive deaths from hunger and related diseases. Said Ouch Borith, 28, the neatly dressed director of Cambodia's International Aid Relief Program: "We disregard ideological considerations when it comes to assistance. We will gladly take it from any country. Rice and medicines are the main priorities, but the emphasis is on rice." Since the Khmer Rouge abolished currency, rice has become the only medium of exchange. One kilo fetches a kilo of fish; two kilos...
...CLUM's wanton disregard of the ordinary decencies in this matter demonstrates its unfitness to judge others on questions of due process," Bergenheim said. "All friends of civil liberty must be saddened by the CLUM's rapid descent into this hypocritical variant of McCarthyism," he added...
Mozart and Librettist Lorenzo da Ponte created an enormously alluring, vital protagonist who pursues his appetites with cheerful disregard for law or morality. After forcing himself on a noblewoman, Donna Anna, he duels with her father, the Commendatore, and kills him. Then, while the Don busies himself mostly with trying to seduce the peasant girl Zerlina, Donna Anna joins forces with her fiancé Don Ottavio and another of the Don's conquests, Donna Elvira, to hound him through a series of comic entanglements, disguises and escapes. When a statue of the slain Commendatore comes to life and challenges...
...Hanoi's disregard of the plight of the Cambodians has been reinforced by the enmity between the two peoples. The Vietnamese have long regarded the Cambodians as treacherous barbarians who had the impudence to revolt against their domination in 1840. Observed Minh Mang, the Vietnamese emperor at the time: "We helped the Cambodians when they were suffering and lifted them out of the mud. Now they are rebellious. I am so angry that my hair stands upright. Hundreds of knives should be used against them, to chop them up, to dismember them...
Courageous and difficult endeavors such as these must of course be applauded by concerned Bostonians. But until blatant acts of disregard for the property, security, and civil rights of others receive the punishment they deserve--regardless of who commits these acts--Boston will remain an expanse of separate minefields...