Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wall of England's Rugby School is a granite slab with this inscription: "This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who with a fine disregard for the rules of football as played in his time first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game...
Five years later, with an equally fine disregard for tyrannical tradition, Rugby's new Head Master Thomas Arnold picked up another ball. He modified the old master-&-boy absolutism into the prefect system of student government. Arnold's innovation soon spread, like the game of Rugby, through the English public (i.e., private) schools...
Mixture as Before. Such synthetic crusades, a trademark of Hearst journalism, are unlikely to survive their inventor. No one else in his empire would dare show such a grand, bland disregard of news values. The campaigns come in three basic sizes, to fit local, moral and national issues. But the strategy is always the same...
...Yorkers, who disregard nature until it makes more noise than the subway, paid scant attention to the snow that was falling when they awakened one day last week. The day was almost mild (29°), the sky was a conservative shade of grey and the wind breathed as apologetically as a Japanese diplomat. The snowflakes themselves descended in a silent and orderly manner, like letters dropping down a mail chute in a good trust company. It was mid-afternoon before the average citizen began to notice how heavily the smothering snow was falling (it averaged 1.8 inches per hour...
...Boles report was not final: ICC could reject it if it chose. It had rejected a Boles report in 1944, when he recommended against Alleghany Corp. control of C. & 0. Even some of Young's enemies privately thought ICC might disregard this Boles report. Young was still confident that by putting public pressure on ICC, he would finally get control of the Central...