Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from 4.3 billion to 3.4 billion. The proposed loan fund of 2 billion over a three year period received only 300 million this year with no guarantee of any future addition. As a result, the ICA's long range development plans were crippled. Congress thus displayed disregard for the advice of the Fairless and Johnston committees which urged the importance of giving the ICA greater leeway in terms of time limits for aid programs, and in regard to giving the ICA experts greater ability to determine for themselves who should receive...
...unforeseen actions of Governor Orval Faubus and a small group of racist agitators subverted the integration of Central High School. Faced with violence and blatant disregard for the law, the federal government adopted the use of armed troops to enforce the Court's historic decision...
...that all the news is fit to print-even when it means running a story from one column to the preceding one. The paper may well be the only one in the world with three separate editorial pages, each allowed to pursue its own vendettas and crusades with joyous disregard for overall policy. Thus, in one issue, in addition to Cabot's own editorial-page salute to the paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill. Third...
...chemistry professor emeritus at Chicago's Jesuit Loyola University, and dissenting member of the three-man board that declared Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer a security risk in 1954; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Lancaster, Pa. The majority felt that Oppenheimer showed a "susceptibility to influence" and a "serious disregard" of U.S. security requirements that raised reasonable doubt, not of his loyalty, but of his judgment. Scientist Evans countered, in a two-page minority report, that the atomic scientist's judgment, while sometimes bad, was better than in 1947 when a Truman loyalty board cleared him, and "to damn...
...gloomily predicted that increasing minimum wages and raising tariffs on raw materials purchased outside the Common Market would cost Dutch manufacturers $84 million in the next five years. French authorities, plagued by a dangerously unfavorable balance of trade, gloomily decided that, for the time being, they would have to disregard the fundamental principle of the Common Market, and temporarily restored import quotas on about 2,000 items that France buys from her European trading partners...