Word: disinteresting
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...Burgess Hill School near London, two seven-year-olds strolled into the recreation room. "Got a match?" asked one. "Sure," said the other. The boys were puffing away, when suddenly the headmaster appeared. "Hi, Jimmy," they said with friendly smiles. Waving back with kind disinterest, James East, M.A. (Cantab.), explained to a visitor: "Kids always smoke, and I'd rather know about it than have it done in secret...
...other two were under indictment. More indictments were being urged by a 13,000-member reform group-United Citizens for Law Enforcement-which also watchdogged horse parlors and brothels to make certain they stayed shut. Preliminary audits showed Beaumont's municipal government alone, through years of avarice and disinterest, had been thrown $1,475,000 in the red. Said one weary reformer: "We've really only started. We still don't know yet how deep this rotten mess goes...
...sons,' however, as Turgenev's 'sons,' interest themselves very little in ideology. But the reasons for this disinterest change considerably between the 1860s and the 1960s. The young intellectuals of Turgenev's time were materialists in an obscurantist and harshly unjust world because theoretical abstractions did not produce bread for the hungry peasants. But the current generation of intellectuals, brought up during the Stalinist era, and having both bread and ideology, fights for neither...
...have the impression, however, that there is far more apathy and disinterest than propriety in their failure to notice restrictions upon their freedom--an apathy bred, more likely than not, by a considerable increase in wealth since the Communists took over. True, politics seem to be discussed to some extent in private circles as the daughter of an important Zagreb factory manager assured me in Vienna. But, in the same discussion, she mentioned in a nonchalant (sort of "well, of course, Ike is a bit senile") tone, that she is not in the least a Communist but rather a socialist...
...most part we have met with amused smirks or polite disinterest. Since we have spent our time and money to prepare for something we sincerely hope will never come, we would not hesitate to defend ourselves with guns if necessary against these same people who would be threatening our lives because of their ignorance...