Word: disinterestedly
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...Mason's novels are wonderful fun to read, despite a disinterest in the fine points of human character, and even despite his high-spirited approach to the English language-which he seems to regard as a lariat for the roping of great strong verbs, soft lovely nouns, and even helpless little prepositions. Nevertheless, Author Mason can keep a story rolling like a navvy with a barrel, and that one perilous, amazing skill makes it hard to ignore what's happening...
Daniel G. Mulvihill, president of H.U.E.R.A., last night expressed disinterest, and remarked that as far as he is concerned, the A.F.L. has given up its attempt to reorganize personnel here...
There was little pressure for a change. The most common lady visitors were mothers, and football weekends were not the bisexual affairs that they have since become. Cheering sections at the games were almost entirely male, and the general attitude toward women was one of tolerant disinterest. During the middle twenties, when a couple of Smith Hall (now Kirkland House) students tried to take advantage of the provision for bringing women into dining halls for meals before special social events, there was a terrible uproar...
...Silliman's activities. Through that system, he thinks, Silliman men (Salamanders) will develop loyalties toward each other rather than toward the master or the tradition of the College, as in most of the other nine colleges. "What I'm trying to get," Greene explained, "is an antidote to the disinterest typical of suburban living. I think we've got it. If I tried to abolish this council now I think I'd have a riot on my hands, I hope...
...Ridenour concludes, "the official silence on radiological warfare probably is expressive of [military security] rather than disinterest...