Word: disregarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Teddy's candidacy involves exploitation of the reputation of the President is arousing widespread resentment. Virtually everyone in public life has been approached by friends who are deeply troubled by the implications of nepotism and disregard of precedent in this candidacy. Their loss of respect for a President can have profoundly damaging effect upon his ability to lead the country. Congressmen feel that a President must have the moral authority to come to them and ask them, at least by implication, to set aside their personal interests in the national interest. Mr. Kennedy's toleration...
...high-risk driver's obvious faults are ill-concealed hostility lurking just below the surface, and an egocentric disregard for others' rights and feelings. Underlying these characteristics, say Drs. Miller and Conger, is dissatisfaction with his position in life and a lack of direction: he does not know where he is going, let alone how to get there. The high-risk driver is far more likely than others to act impulsively, and live in a world of fantasy...
...election, thought he saw in medicare a red-hot political issue with which to bludgeon his opponents and win votes for Democratic candidates in November. Though the American Medical Association far overstated the case by calling the medicare bill socialized medicine. Kennedy equated its opposition with callous disregard of elders' health. He bluntly said that he would get his way no matter what Congress did, and by insisting that medicare would be a partisan issue in the fall cam paign, solidified Republican opposition to it. To many - including some in his own party - he seemed to be more interested...
...movie which contains scenes of spare dialogue that are among the most moving I have ever seen. The film deals with two kinds of people: those with simple and pure desires who never lose sight of the human reality of experiences such as love and war, and those who disregard that reality, creating unhappiness for themselves and others...
...real writer, no matter how vague his ultimate aims, is gifted with a shrewd eye for anything that threatens his movements, so that when he meets an obstacle--marriage, debt the army--he will either elude it with great tact or pass through it in a spirit of utter disregard. I doubt there was ever a genuine author who blamed the landscape for his failure. It is only after his heart has left him that he seeks excuses, and then he resorts to them with a relish that most of us save for deep shade on a hot day. Mother...