Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter quoted by Major William G. Sears in your April 2 issue. . . . The comparison made by the Major between the situation under which the Chrysler tank drivers threatened to strike and the conditions under which tanks are driven by men in battle is not only malicious, but shows a disregard of the very rights and principles we are fighting for. To insinuate that workers should tolerate any condition where they work because our men are going through worse is nothing short of mean, and presupposes that total war is the normal state of this country and the world...
Argentina's reaction was immediate. Her Government announced that it would not participate in further meetings of the Pan American Union so long as it continued to "disregard Argentine rights." Neither would it send a voteless, unequal delegate to the Mexico City conference. "Argentina," said a spokesman, "does not intend to play Cinderella in Mexico or elsewhere...
...ourselves, like all peoples who have gone through the difficult processes of liberation and adjustment, know of our own experience how great the difficulties can be. ... Our own Revolutionary War left behind it, in the words of one American historian, 'an eddy of lawlessness and disregard of human life.' There were separatist movements. . . . There were insurrections. These difficulties we worked out for ourselves as the peoples of the liberated areas of Europe . . . will work out their difficulties for themselves...
...first and only sculpture he showed in a public exhibition inspired ridicule, even some alarm, in critics and public alike. That figure was the famed Ballet Dancer, Dressed (see cut). He first modeled the homely, arrogant little dancer in the nude, then, with breath-taking disregard for tradition, dressed her in linen waist and muslin skirt. The public was more amazed by the covering of this figure (solemnly exhibited like a doll dressed in real clothes) than it usually is by decent, or even indecent, exposure. Degas never again exhibited his sculpture...
...outmoded TBDs which had taken off from U.S. carriers that day, only four came back. Smitty's battered bomber was one of them. Mom got her picture. Smitty got 1) a commission as ensign; 2) a Navy Cross and a citation which read in part: "His extreme disregard of personal safety contributed materially to the success of our forces...