Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most Westpointed U.S. officers commanding the temperamental De Lattre, he was hard to stomach. He had a supreme disregard for carefully planned strategy. (Says he: "The battle of the Marne was not won by a committee or a plan.") At one point during the fighting, the U.S. command ordered him to fall back to a new line, evacuate Strasbourg; he flatly refused. Another time, he attacked Ulm against instructions because Napoleon had captured...
From then on Andy Sheridan was always on the wrong side of the law. He had all the physical assets of a good professional killer-the pasty, expressionless face, the coldly squinting stare and a contemptuous disregard for human life. By 1930, he was an accomplished journeyman killer on the staff of mobster Dutch Schultz. In 1938, Boss Joe Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Association (A.F.L.) put Sheridan on his staff of waterfront goons working with another hired hand, John M. ("Cockeye") Dunn...
...Slums. This week, in the second installment, Professor Barrois gets down to specifics on the differences between the churches. "We had better recognize the fact that we are divided on matters of faith and life, which we cannot disregard," he says. In the first place, "the Roman
...Motta's handlers above the buzz of 22,183 spectators: " 'At's it, Jackson. 'Atta go, Jackson . . . put the bomb in." Jake (alias Jackson) never put the bomb in. Just before the bell for the tenth round, Cerdan's manager decided to disregard the protests of his fighter: he threw in the towel. "What's the use?" snapped one of his seconds to ringsiders, "He can't lift his left...
...paragon of virtue, by then long a bishop and according to H. L. Mencken "the most powerful ecclesiastic ever heard of in America," was accused by the elders of his own church of immorality, bucketshop gambling, flour-hoarding (during World War I), adultery, lying and "gross moral turpitude and disregard for the first principles of Christian ethics...