Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudest senatorial reaction came from a close friend of McCarthy. Indiana's Republican William Jenner. Jenner complained that the Watkins Committee had ignored "the most important evidence" that the "Communist world conspiracy" is attempting to discredit McCarthy. His analysis seemed to disregard an important fact: the Watkins Committee did not criticize McCarthy for any word or deed against any Communist conspirator, but for his conduct toward established institutions and loyal citizens...
...action drew a sharp protest from the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, which called upon the University to disregard "legally unsubstantiated political criticism . . . and consider only the individual's competence in his chosen field...
...days," the colonel replied. "You proceeded on a mission without orders." A rotund, familiar figure with a cigar was also on hand at Biggin Hill. Sir Winston Churchill, 79, who had driven seven miles from his country house at Chartwell, addressed his visitor, with his usual disregard for any language but English, as "Monsoor Mends Fra-a-ance." Then the old British bulldog and the spry little Frenchman drove off in Churchill's limousine to dis cuss the fate of Europe...
Brimstone & Hysteria. There was plenty to reform. The hill people are fond of a local liquor that approaches 200-proof, and their disregard for God's commandment against adultery makes Hollywood seem puritanical. Incest is common. "I know dozens of cousins who are living together," Jessie Hyde said recently. "I know men who stay with their aunts and girls who stay with their uncles...
Sewing Machines & School. By 1941 Duttweiler had amassed a fortune of $4,000,000. With a characteristic disregard for the conventional, he decided he had little use for great wealth or good living. So he gave away his Migros stores to his family of 120,000 registered customers, one share apiece, turning the whole business into a cooperative. For himself, he kept $250,000. He also turned his estate outside Zurich into an amusement park, moved into a four-room house where he and his wife live without servants, and from which he drives to work in a mouse-sized...