Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both fives use a fast-breaking offense and virtually disregard the defense. The visitors, who rule a slight favorite, have put this system to better use, twice going over the 100-point mark, while the Yardlings' best effort was 85 tallies, a new mark for Crimson basketball...
...recognize that the present conflict is a great emergency where all men of character must stand together united," they informed General Douglas MacArthur. "We will disregard differences in religion between Christian, Filipino, Mohammedan or pagan. ... To all of this we have sworn on the Koran...
...Burma's defenders, second only to Douglas MacArthur and the men of Bataan Peninsula in their disregard of overwhelming odds (see p. 26), were really rolling...
While most men believe that the Selective Service system is satisfactory, they expect that the army will disregard their training and experience. They are overwhelmingly convinced, however, that what they can do as private citizens can materially affect the course...
...army has stationed Negro trainees in Southern training camps, in total disregard of the common fact that race prejudice is there most intense. The results were inevitable. On January 10 a white MP and civilian police opened fire on a group of colored troops in Alexandria, Louisiana, and 29 of the soldiers were wounded. A War Department investigation has determined that, "while a show of force may have been necessary to disperse the crowd which gathered when a colored soldier resisted arrest by a military policeman, the shooting was unnecessary." This was not the first, but merely the most spectacular...