Word: neglect
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...Labour delegates confine themselves to viewing these exhibits their passage money will be wasted . . . As a start, they might well propose a call at the office of the Supreme People's Procurator, a functionary who controls an extensive apparatus concerned with the punishment of those who neglect their work or "sabotage" production or construction. They might try to attend one of the trials of workers conducted by the "comrade tribunals...
...like crime, does not pay-although there are exceptions in both cases. Most artists must neglect their muses to earn their livelihoods, and most of them consider this a shame. Not so a tall, green-eyed Norwegian named Bjorn Sather. Sather, a brilliant painter and woodcut artist, was settling down this week to a day laborer's job in a Montreal furniture factory, yet he thought that everything was just wonderful. He and his wife and two children were able to eat hamburgers again after existing for weeks on spaghetti and oak leaves (oak leaves are good...
Love at First Sight. It is true, says Emmanuel, that the American often presents a kind of freshness that the European student lacks, but "too many American students neglect the compass which history gives them for the sake of a personal approach to the classics . . . How quickly the American student makes friends with a book or a man and treats them as if they were his contemporaries! He hardly knows the background from which they arise. They surge out of his own mental world, haunt him, call forth in him an instantaneous and, frequently, a passionate reaction. A fortnight later...
...would not have to bear all the burden of present reductions. For example, a Chevrolet that sold for $800 in 1940 is now about $1,600. Automakers like to say that a 100% price rise in 14 years is no more than the general increase in prices. What they neglect to say is that the price they quote in ads is the stripped-down one. On some low-priced models, extra equipment can run up to $746. a 300% price boost over 1940. So far, automakers have shown no signs of cutting factory prices. Even if the Big Three could...
...American Geriatrics Society warned his colleagues that treating the aged as if they were middle-aged often results in dangerous "overtreatment." Samples: too-vigorous examinations, overdoses of drugs, too-hasty resort to surgery. Said Thewlis: "As a matter of fact, many [elderly] people seem to get along [on] skillful neglect." ¶One in nine "moderate" drinkers is certain to become an alcoholic, declared the University of Illinois' famed and controversial physiologist, Dr. Andrew C. Ivy (TIME, April 9, 1951 et seq.). Sure signs of impending alcoholism: 1) sneaking extra drinks at a party by hanging around the punchbowl...