Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dictator could not very well overlook evidence that his colonial administration was gypping the home government by permitting local businesses to sell their goods abroad at a fat profit instead of shipping them back to Portugal at government-controlled prices-but he did not have to like it. Playwright Galvão was quietly dropped from the list of acceptable Assembly candidates by the nation's only political party, and soon afterward was hauled off to jail on charges of plotting against the regime...
...however, is the Supreme Soviet's appeal for representatives of the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament to meet with Russian legislators to discuss banning nuclear bomb experiments. The United States can, and probably will, ignore the pleas from Africa, Rome, Bonn, and Tokyo, but it cannot afford to overlook the resolution passed in Moscow...
...painting that proved to be his turning point was Franz Marc's Fate of the Animals, done just before World War I. Standing before it, Hartung found that "the more I looked, the more the animals annoyed me. I forced myself to overlook them, and back home I tried to express the same rhythm with color only, without using animals or any other objects...
...N.C.A.A. selection, the sextet's victory over Brown the following night was so impressive that Crimson coach Cooney Weiland has insisted that the sextet is still in the running. "If we keep playing the way we did against Brown I don't see how they (the Selection Committee) can overlook us," Weiland commented last night...
...spend part of his life in a mental hospital, famed Psychiatrist William C. Menninger came out with a sweeping statistic of his own last week. He told the National Association for Mental Health: "Even the most startling of these figures . . . refer only to extreme cases of mental disorder. [They] overlook the common, everyday emotional disturbances which can be as upsetting and incapacitating as many of the physical illnesses. When we take these into account, the toll of mental ill health must be reckoned as one in one, for there isn't a person who does not experience frequently...