Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Clockwise. The average tourist (who, in 1950, had begun looking for bargains again) would disregard them all. If he lived in the country he would head for a big city-despite the heat, the crowds and the stench of exhaust fumes. If he lived in a city he would head straight for mosquitoes, poison ivy and a bull that wanted to gore Junior. He would travel by car, visit a national park if he could, and a relative if he couldn't avoid it, and almost always he would drive clockwise around a circular or elliptical route...
...Secretary of State Dean Acheson. Congressmen, almost to a man, regard the Secretary as a cat, and feel an unholy urge to chase him up a tree. Some of the congressional baying he has aroused is rooted deep in partisan politics. But the Secretary's unblinking disregard for opinion on Capitol Hill, and his back-arching criticism of his tormentors, has at times driven even Democrats to tooth-clicking leaps...
...A.V.C. in its letter to the Corporation, termed the use of part of Burr's $1,500,000 bequest to build a new Varsity Club an "almost cynical disregard for rational allocation of resources in the University...
...used none of the familiar winks, grimaces, and gestures. Depending solely on the songs for effect throughout the performances. He translated as many of the foreign songs as he could, because, as he explained, "original lyric is rot"--the song is ineffective unless the audience understands it. This disregard for accent extended to his singing Negro songs "straight...
Fair Deal program. His legislative leaders were rebellious, disgruntled by his failure to consult them, annoyed by his disregard for their views. Congress spent the week ignoring, disregarding or repudiating several of his proposals...