Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Colonel Charles P. Summerall Jr. and Colonel Stephen E. Stancisko, commanding officers of the R.O.T.C. at Harvard and Yale respectively, are both seasoned soldiers who would never make it a habit to disregard suggestions from topside. But when it came to the latest Army Department gimmick for luring college men into R.O.T.C., Colonels Summerall and Stancisko drew the line. The gimmick: a stickily written little comic book which R.O.T.C. commanders were authorized to distribute to incoming freshmen...
...fine disregard for the conventional flow of time. He can dismiss a war or a death with a sentence or two yet spend pages on a picture of Tabitha disciplining her child. This makes for a breathless narrative, intentionally short on description and drama. But although "A Fearful Joy" rolls this narrative past its readers in a headlong rush, it stops frequently to breathe, to question, and to laugh...
Everywhere the pattern was the same: these were not chance killings but deliberate, premeditated executions of political prisoners, relatives of South Korean soldiers and suspected antiCommunists. Said the United Nations Commission on Korea in a report to Secretary General Trygve Lie: "The commission condemns the complete disregard by the North Korean authorities of civilized standards of behavior as well as of the principle of the Geneva Conventions." At week's end a conservative estimate of the number of civilians killed by the retreating Reds...
...cherishing worldly goods, cautions them that man's spirit, not logic and reason, must govern their lives. So far, Prince X sounds almost like a Christian. He is not; he is a Nietzschean. He disdains pity and charity, preaches the importance of the here & now and a disregard for the future. His rule is absolute and his subjects may not question him: "He who questions is seeking, primarily, the abyss...
...minister, announced Saturday tha this country would not "supinely tolerate seeing her neighbors being savagely invaded by imperialists." India may eventually go along with the eight-nation proposal in the Assembly, and China's threats may be purely for propaganda purposes, but that was no reason for us to disregard the statements o these two countries altogether...