Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-informed Whitehall Letter, driving this point home, last week noted that it would be foolish "to overlook the fact that Russia's problems of demobilization, reconversion and reconstruction must inevitably be of a formidable character." This, with the rest of the letter, was a polite way of saying that Jimmy Byrnes & Co. had indeed been so foolish as to overlook exactly those factors, and had acted in Moscow as though Russia were invulnerable to any and every form of resistance to her demands...
...plans for cautious removal of controls were scrapped; if Washington was not ready for reconversion, industry was. WPB handed out priorities for new machines for civilian goods, for new plants. "Cap" Krug himself, who had once hankered for tight controls, announced: "The danger confronting us is that we will overlook the natural resilience of the economy. Temporary dislocations are inevitable. We must not be stampeded into elaborate controls...
...once, passing up a red-hot favorite for a lonesome long shot made good sense. The $30,000-plus that Billy the Kid would receive for his annual Boston labors was $12-15,000 more than he got from the penny-pinching Cards. Nor could Southworth overlook the possibilities for gaining new prestige (and perhaps more money): picking the lowly Braves up off the floor would require a lot more skill than keeping the player-rich Cardinals...
...sometimes recapitulates, sometimes diffuses material that Author Scott has already reported for TIME (he was formerly TIME'S correspondent in Stockholm, is now TIME'S correspondent in Berlin). But as a study in social forces, the book insists on an important fact which most Americans like to overlook or dismiss-the fact that Europe is going through a social revolution, which cannot fail to affect the whole world...
...close reader of TIME since . . . '39, I've learned in the ETO three things that some of you seem to overlook: 1) Not one in ten soldiers ever sees a foxhole. 2) Damn few "give" their lives. Except in that million-in-one Kamikaze case, the average G.I. merely takes unwillingly the first step to make it available. The volition is usually some nervous reaction such as fear, impatience, confusion. 3) In battle a lot of young men learn for the first time that young men can, do and, under the circumstances, are likely to die. That thought...