Word: overlooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of defendant firms, be dragged into the suit? No, said Clark. Only officials currently in the firms are affected. But the case might still be politically embarrassing to the Administration. The Russians, who have been bitterly attacking ex-Wall Streeters in the Truman Administration, would scarcely overlook a chance to fire another round with ammunition furnished by Tom Clark...
...ruled her rising business like a benevolent despot. She paid wages higher than the industry level, instituted bonus and insurance plans. In return, she reserved the privilege of making them all work hard. Her employees, mostly women like the bonus- and Margaret Rudkin- enough to overlook her perfectionism As a result, Pepperidge has never been unionized...
...noted that once Eisenhower dropped his active military status, he would be in "an open arena" a few months before the presidential conventions. It was also noted that Eisenhower is an acknowledged "catalyst," and that he had the magic ability to unite dissident factions. No party could overlook his enormous prestige. But no one knew for sure whether he was a Republican or a Democrat...
...Grau had made enough mistakes to rule him right out of the 1948 presidential race, for which his friends once tried to back him despite the constitutional ban on reelection. Hasty critics overlook Grau's educational program (236 schools built, more building), his high-capacity (if slow-building) housing and public-works plans, and his own defense that "never in history has there been...
...although moved by such an experience, one can't overlook the presence of the upper classes in Germany; Americans like their music better when they can sit with a cigarette in one hand and a highball in the other. When I heard Walter Gieseking in Wiesbaden he was in the act of prostituting himself before such an audience. After ham-fisting his way through Debussey, he concluded (either as a culmination of his own bad taste or a reprimand to that of his listeners) with a beer garden style arrangement of Strauss waltz themes...