Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enough for kinship. The real question is "Which came first" and "Who is copying who?" Snap judgement might give the tree seniority. But one must not overlook the fact that a strong line of "beard" ancestry is that of Commander Whitehead, who may have fallen on ignoble days, but whose blood, nonetheless, flows back through the history of England. And England, as everybody knows, traces its blood to the line of Danaus, whose daughters drifted onto that island many years ago. And Danaus, as most everybody knows, was one of the first inhabitants of that land now called Greece...
Stirred from their lethargy, thousands of Spaniards wrote letters to the editor. Madrid's vociferous Castizos (true Castilians) almost to a man opposed reform, arguing that to impose "foreign innovations" was to overlook "the realities of Spain" and to threaten one of the most cherished of Spanish institutions, the so-bremesa−"chatting without attaching any importance to the passing of time" at the table after lunch...
Copley had invented Romantic horror-painting, but he never followed up his invention. That remained for Frenchman Theodore Gericault, whose Raft of the Medusa (see color) came 40 years later. Critics have made much of what Gericault owed to Michelangelo and Caravaggio, have tended to overlook his connection with Copley. Yet the similarity of composition (a pyramid tilted toward the horizon) and especially of spirit argues for Gericault's having known Copley's picture. Splendid though they are. both Copley's and Gericault's men-against-the-sea-scapes seem as dated today as they once...
...Panama or Liberia, the ships pay only nominal taxes,* e.g., 10? a ton yearly, employ nonunion crews and are unlikely ever to be seized for defense reasons. Niarchos, in addition, pays no corporate taxes on most of his profits. These are considerations which no banker can afford to overlook. As an approving London banker said recently: "The great virtue of Niarchos is that he's a gypsy...
...first, the guards in the armored train ahead tried to fight off the unseen attackers with gunfire, but after a moment they gave up and steamed away, ostensibly to get reinforcements. Meanwhile, a detachment of guards in the rear car of the express lay low, hoping the bandits would overlook them. It was a vain hope. Concentrating their aim on the rear car, the bandits pinned down the guards with a barrage of Bren and Sten gunfire, turning aside only to kill any passengers from the train who tried to escape. Then, going systematically through the cars, they stripped...