Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Author William Shannon, able columnist for the liberal New York Post, this casual naturalization represents the Irish contribution to America: a concern for people, and a comparable disregard for the niceties of law. Where the Irish have failed in America, writes Shannon, it has been a failure not of nerve but of knowledge...
This lofty, Panglossian attitude underlies serious, if infrequent, professional misjudgments by the Foreign Office, notably Britain's brave attempt to shrug off the Congo crisis, as well as its extraordinary lapses of human judgment, as in its boys-will-be-boys disregard of such howling security risks as Burgess and Maclean. Since more than 90% of all its recruits are Oxford or Cambridge men, class-conscious Britons still echo the plaint of 19th century Reformer John Bright that the service is "a gigantic system of outdoor relief for the British aristocracy...
...plays the best college football in the U.S.? Why, the East, of course. It may come as a shock, but there it is. First, disregard the effete East, otherwise known as the Fight Fiercelies-the Ivy League, the Yankee Conference, the Middle Atlantic Conference. Concentrate on the Big Five: Army, Navy, Pitt, Penn State and Syracuse. No rep-tie types these-coal miners' sons from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey farmers, shave-skull cadets. The Big Five are technically independents, but they are linked together just as any conference is-by bands of mutual geography and mutual jealousy...
Certainly, American attitudes toward death are complex, and the manner of dying is just a partial reason for these attitudes. Miss Mitford has chosen to disregard the problem, to deny the perceptiveness of the undertakers while she decries their sales pitch. Some readers may find her own singleminded emphasis on money just as distasteful as the embalming practices she describes. But because her appeal is essentially emotional--and Americans are always emotional about money--her book will have impact, and produce results...
...face of "sufficiently convincing" evidence of the leak's existence, the department decided that the only just solution would be to disregard completely grades achieved on the exam. Although marks will not count, the tests will be graded and critically discussed in section, Joheph Cooper, assistant professor of Government and head section man in the course, said yesterday...