Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Porter, Taft's analysis of the Texas situation later brought a hard-hitting statement: "In Senator Taft's letter to the national committee, in which he was permitted ... to appear as an advocate and judge ... he showed cynical disregard of morality ... In the 7th, 13th and 16th Congressional Districts, there were no contests. When the Eisenhower delegates from those districts walked out of the state convention and joined the Eisenhower convention, there were no delegates remaining to represent those districts. And yet Senator Taft claims in his letter that he won those districts...
Taft's backers have manifested all along the coolest disregard for honesty, consistency, democratic ideals, and simple fair play. Apparently they are so convinced that Taft should be the next president that they do not care how he gets there...
...voice trained in the essentials, trained in the minimum of personal expression." In a few harsh strokes, he renders the whole humiliating relationship between Nazi overlords and Ukrainian collaborators. But he is at his best in comparing Nazis and Stalinists. Both, as he paints them, are alike in their disregard for the human person, but the Germans kill wantonly while the Russians kill with cold intent; for the SS, it is the stroke of death that matters, for the NKVD. the authority by which the stroke is administered...
Sharply and concisely, Judge Streit summarized a "heinous, degrading and shocking" picture: "I found that intercollegiate basketball and football at Kentucky have become highly systematized, professionalized and commercialized enterprises. I found covert subsidization of players, ruthless exploitation of athletes, cribbing at examinations, 'Illegal' recruiting, a reckless disregard of their physical welfare, matriculation of unqualified students, demoralization of the athletes by the coach...
Evil Glow. There was another possibility, unpleasant to contemplate but impossible to disregard. U.S. intelligence sources reported last week that Soviet Russia's civil defense preparations are now just about complete. As recently as a year ago the Russians seemed to be paying little attention to civil defense; Western officials read this as one sign that Russia was not prepared to go to war. In the light of the latest intelligence assessment, the bacteriological warfare propaganda took on an evil glow. It is just the kind of campaign which a totalitarian state might be expected to use to whip...