Word: disinteresting
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Like most good generals the world over, dour, gong-shaped Marshal Sarit has always professed a profound dislike and disinterest in politics. Instead, he has been content to boss the army and to combine business with business by seeing that most of the army's requirements for supplies and equipment are met by commercial firms he owns or controls himself. The marshal's business astuteness pleases his followers but they have long been distressed by his political indifference, and have watched with more than a tinge of envy as General Phao and his 50,000-man police force...
Margarita is known to have had considerable support for the position of head coach, left vacant by the firing of Lloyd Jordan, but filled yesterday with the appointment of John Yovicsin. However, it is believed that Margarita expressed his disinterest in the position...
...post office such as Cambridge, 38, and which is so tied up with relatively small considerations that any large-scale improvement such as the correction of the existing New York mail situation becomes virtually impossible. A Post office for Harvard University falls victim to the same type of disinterest in any sort of problem which might take an excessive amount of study and consideration. Within this framework the local office is quite helpless...
...Pope continued: "Too much blood has been unjustly shed! Too much mourning and slaughter has been suddenly renewed! The slender thread of confidence which had begun to reunite peoples and gave some comfort to souls appears to be broken . . . Can the world disinterest itself in these brothers, abandoning them to a fate of degrading slavery? Let all other problems be set aside . . . Perhaps if nations which sincerely love freedom and peace are united, this will be sufficient to induce those who break the fundamental laws of human understanding to milder counsels...
...Dulles tried the user's association which was neither practicable nor even based at all upon the realities of the situation. When it fell through, he gave up. For obvious reasons the French, British, and Israelis have not given up. In the present crisis, American blustering disinterest is not enough...