Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stassen planned the tests as an "objective indication of ability" after Congress, in cutting FOA's appropriation, had given him blanket authority to disregard civil service regulations, seniority, or even veterans' preference in pruning his staff. Clerical staff members ($3,000 a year and below) took a basic test in vocabulary and reading comprehension; higher-placed FOAers faced a more difficult exam (45 questions, 75 minutes). Bureaucrats on a policy level had a public affairs test to contend with (70 questions, 2 hours), or, if they wished, a two-hour examination in "administrative judgment...
...Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (R.S.P.C.A.) said no: "It's unnatural. We don't speak about happiness or unhappiness, because nobody can tell whether a hen is happy or not. [But] if you let expediency rule your action and disregard feeling for others, the world is in a poor state. That kind of thing is like Hitler." The R.S.P.C.A. demanded the abolition of batteries and thereby opened wide the floodgates for another characteristic of British civilization: the angry letter writer...
...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
...officers, led by Marshal Tukhachevsky, tried to throw off Chekist control in 1937, they were liquidated, along with some 30,000 regular career officers. Behind every high Red army commander in World War II stood a Chekist with the power to veto military orders. The system paid off: Chekist disregard for life accounted for some of the Red army's more daring and costly victories. With the war's end, many of the Red army's greatest marshals were not soldiers, but cops. Such a one is goateed Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, now Minister for Defense...
Hungary was a vestigially feudal country when the Communists took it over in 1944 in their sweep toward Vienna. The conquerors' remedy was the one Lenin had prescribed for Russia: speedy industrialization. With the same ruthless disregard for human life which characterized Stalin's carrying out of the Leninist injunction, they pursued this end: farmlands were collectivized, workers brutally regimented, living standards depressed. Last week, in a swift move that had overtones of the great Moscow turnabout of the '20s, the Hungarian Communists reversed their program...