Word: neglectment
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...ambiguous to strive for more children from those families of good mental and physical health, and of good principles, and at the same time seek to curb those from irresponsible families who neglect their children? Or would TIME recommend that morons, sex perverts, and the like be given a bonus to bring more children into the world? I think...
...18th-Century social history. Unfortunately the vanguard of standardized man was already overrunning England, the last stronghold of the individualist, and his creation . . . was, alas, only transitory. By some mischance not readily accounted for, this type of hat was overlooked by Mr. Churchill, and I have always felt that neglect from such a connoisseur was a blow that no hat could survive...
Last week North Carolina's Governor R. Gregg Cherry commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. Said he, in a statement rare for a Southern governor: "The crimes are revolting, but a part of the blame . . . arises from the neglect of the State and society to provide a better environment. . . . Our public schools, equipped with capable teachers . . . [and] an effective compulsory-attendance law, would do much to correct delinquency among all races." Rarer still, in all North Carolina there was no outcry...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
Historian Milton Waldman, a Cleveland-born expatriate, who has lived in England for more than 20 years and has made the life and times of Elizabeth his specialty (England's Elizabeth; Sir Wal ter Raleigh; The Absolute Rulers of England), believes that historians have tended to neglect or forget Robert Dudley's vital role in English history. He believes that too much romantic limelight has been thrown on the young man who succeeded Dudley as the Queen's "most overwritten favorite"-Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex. Elizabeth and Leicester reads like a prim rebuke to Lytton Strachey...