Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When I was a boy living in a poor section, coming from hard-working people, it was unknown that the poor would not go to church. It was the last thing that they would neglect. Now, with social security checks and welfare checks coming in, they are not interested in the church. They go from day to day knowing that tomorrow will take care of itself." Gushing clenched his big fists. "Their former dependence on God, upon the personal charity of those representing religion, has been psychologically unsettled by the welfare state...
...dazzled darling of the champagne revels of the '20s woke to the hungover desolation of the '30s. He found his talent depleted, his nerves unstrung, his wife Zelda mad, and he faced a literary fate that to a writer can be worse than death-public and critical neglect. In 1937 Fitzgerald packed himself, like "a cracked plate," off to Hollywood, not to recoup his life but to repay his $40,000 debts. There, across two dinner tables in a crowded restaurant he saw handsome Hollywood Columnist Sheilah Graham and said, "I like you." There was to be another...
...Loans are definitely increasing in relative importance," Glimp pointed out, adding that "a danger inherent in this trend is that a lot of emphasis on loans may cause colleges to neglect scholarships...
...keep my losses to a minimum. I'm trying to let the laboring man know that there is nothing inconsistent with my being a Republican and being interested in the welfare of the individual worker." Even while trying to stave off losses in Genesee, Chamberlain cannot afford to neglect Ingham and Livingston, and already he has heard complaints that he has not been seeing enough of his farm friends. To handle that problem, he scheduled a tour through the district's farming areas this week with Ezra Benson, whom Chamberlain deems a decided political asset...
Promotion. "It is neither an overgeneralization nor an oversimplification to state that in the faculties of major universities in the United States today, the evaluation of performance is based almost exclusively on publication." Result: a neglect of what teachers are hired for-teaching-and "a great deal of foolish and unnecessary research . . . undertaken by men who bring to their investigations neither talent nor interest." The ambitious academician's sole aim is to accumulate published titles, as a young actor squirrels away television credits. Title-squirreling pays off: "Success is likely to come to the man who has learned...