Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese military and police followed traditions reaching back to primitive ages . . . ranging from disregard of diplomatic courtesies to the imprisonment and torture of American and British correspondents, businessmen and missionaries, the massacre of British and American wounded at Hong Kong and Wake Island . . . the rape and slaughter of British women, including war hospital nurses." A U.S. dentist who had practiced in Hong Kong seven years. Dr. J. S. Pyne, told of Hong Kong's fall: "They lined up about 3,000 British and Americans and marched us down the main street four abreast before the native population. . . . There...
...early morning long ago, before Hitler was master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...Steel wages are not as far above other industries as they used to be, and the steel workers' advantage will soon be whittled down still further by increases elsewhere. This was the high point of the fact-finders' disregard of price control...
...early morning long ago, before Hitler was master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...
...University persists in keeping the law on the books, I hope students will attend lectures in disregard of it, and I hope that no professor will allow a student to be expelled from a lecture which he had the intellectual curiosity to attend. Roger D. Fisher...