Word: disinteresting
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...problem, for the lack of a strong, non-Communist student organization keeps the democrats walking around in groups of two or three. And the attitude of many top government officials is to ignore the problem. As one top Congress Party officer said, "Oh, they're just students." This widespread disinterest, combined with historic opposition to the British, makes many students despair with the government, a dangerous trend in such a young nation...
...main, however, the white students have maintained a detachment bordering on disinterest. It is noteworthy that there is virtually no evidence that Communist or Communist-front groups have tried to exploit the more sensitive aspects of the situation on any campus . . . Nowhere has the admission of Negroes produced anything like a boycott, nor has it been made a prime political issue...
This produces a combination of inferiority and disinterest among the Middlebury men. Many consider themselves beneath the women, beyond hope of interesting them, and so they don't even try. Girls and boys sit in separate clusters in the classrooms unless seats are assigned according to the alphabet. Except for a small rush when new movies come to town, boys and girls go stag...
...Little Thrigs (Al "Jazzbo" Collins; Capitol). The ultimate in pop-bent nursery stories. Narrator Collins scrambles the familiar words into loony spoonerisms, either causes total listener collapse or total disinterest...
...language training an unpleasant chore or merely a set of grammatical constructs. Some strides are being made in speaking the language from the start--the easiest, fastest, most thorough and most enjoyable way to learn; as the language becomes meaningful and can overcome a student's natural laziness or disinterest. It is still not enough to provide a much-needed tool for successful understanding and handling of America's role in world affairs...