Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many faults. It has not been able to fit into its liberal arts structure such fringe items of education as basic language instruction and ROTC. The trend of its tuition policies is toward turning the student body into a mixture of the wealthy and the scholarship holder, with a disregard for the problems of those in between. Its parietal administrators still-seem to adhere to the ascetic standards of a prep school. Yet on matters like distribution and sale of football tickets, it tolerated abuses until unfavorable publicity became inevitable...
Another droll touch was added to Fools' Week as six Ponies staged a race on tricycles and roller skates in front of Widener yesterday. With utter disregard for the solemn procession, the police attempted tempted to disperse the fascinated spectators...
...order to point out that I intended no such inference to be drawn, I specifically said that I believed that the disregard of the evidence in the White case was "because of the unwillingness of the non-Communists in responsible positions to face the facts and a persistent delusion that Communism in the Government of the United States was only a red herring...
...long since adopted the helicopter as its answer to the atomic bomb, and proposes to send rotor-topped whirlybirds hurrying inland from carriers far at sea, to establish the beachheads of the future. The Army has begun supplementing trucks with helicopters, and, in so doing, is regaining a disregard for rough terrain it has not been able to afford since the day of the mule. And today no naval aviator leaves a carrier deck without knowing that a helicopter is hovering near by, ready to swoop and pluck him from the sea if he is forced down...
...both parties are less and less marshaled to the polls by organization. They are attracted by top candidates and issues. Since Stevenson was the Democrats' last presidential candidate, his position at Chicago as the No. 1 Democrat was unchallenged. In or out of Congress, his fellow Democrats might disregard his leadership, but no one else, at this point, was spokesman for the party...