Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to your July 30 report, "Endless Frontiers," the Bureau of Reclamation plans to shuffle and redeal all the rivers of the West, with lordly disregard of natural obstacles, economics and state boundaries . . . There are many reasons why this Buck Rogers enterprise is unworthy of serious consideration...
...local boards which disregard the recommendations of Selective Service and of its advisory board are being arbitrary," General Renfrow declared. "Arbitrary action, here or elsewhere, should not be tolerated...
...Quakers, unworried, dug themselves in for the immediate, and expected, barrage of abuse. Hall lashed at Stassen's manifest disregard for the common interest and welfare of all the other colleges in the nation." In succession, Columbia, Cornell, California, and Yale balked at signing football contracts, and Dartmouth threatened to cancel the scheduled game of October 6. Commissioner Asa Bushnell of the E.C.A.C. (an N.C.A.A. subordinate) threatened to toss the Quakers but of Conference leagues in other sports...
...carry his mortally wounded captain to a place of greater safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...
...With a disregard for sentiment that raised even Hollywood's firmly planted brows, Hedy Lamarr closed the doors of her Beverly Hills house behind her, put its entire contents up for auction. She was leaving not only her screen career, but all its trappings, to begin life anew in Acapulco, Mexico, where her new (fourth) husband, ex-Bandleader Ted Stauffer, runs a nightclub. Among the items on the block: a collection of fairy tales inscribed "to the beauty from the beast," a faded black lace evening dress with sewn-in falsies, 75 pairs of shoes, 15 fur coats...