Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pupil. When Billy Mitchell died, the air-power revolution lost its one great leader. There were plenty of airmen who agreed with him, and most of them were in the Army Air Corps. But there was none so gifted with the combination of impressive rank, burning partisan zeal and disregard of military convention as the man who had written: "The day has passed when armies on the ground or navies on the sea can be the arbiters of a nation's destiny...
...took a lot of nerve, a lot of dead-aim calculation, a fine disregard of precedent to give the answers he had made to the questions which were posed him. In World War I the Allies, with a pool of about 20,000,000 tons of shipping, drew 60% of their supplies from France, Scandinavia and Spain. They threw their 100% largely at Germany on the Western Front. This time the Allies have only about 3,000,000 tons afloat. But the world is their battlefield. Vast stores of fuel oil, rubber and other riches once available...
Baseball fans in Portland, Ore. got a hot earful one night recently when they tuned in on little KWJJ ("The Voice From Broadway") for the nightly roundup of baseball scores. What they heard was an indignation meeting held in disregard of the U.S. Censor's caution against "man in the street" programs. Its purport: that Portland police are too bloody rough...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...
Originally intended to uncover volunteers who wished to begin work immediately, the drive has been extended to include all those who expect to be able to serve this summer and next fall. Officials of the drive wished to emphasize that interested Yardlings should disregard any wording of the card to the contrary and register, even if unable to become active this season...