Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Without a war there were $2,500,000,000 in bonds sold. That's only a fraction of the foreseeable cash needs of America rising to its colossal destiny, and it will fall, it must fall, it has fallen to the broadcasters of the U.S. to disregard all former ideas of a proper amount of 'free time' to give any Government agency. The Treasury is perhaps incapable of being 'popular' in the frivolous sense, but it must have 'popular' support in the wider sense....Radio will perform a real service if it applies...
...session on Nov. 15 would find Premier Hideki Tojo detailing a time limit for U.S.-Japanese discussions. Said the conservative Asahi: "Japan, making a great sacrifice to establish the New East Asia, must take even stronger resolutions to go straight ahead in this and other national policies, to the disregard of American obstructions." Yomiuri made much of the Reuben James sinking, doubted U.S. ability to police both oceans, termed the Atlantic Fleet "a question of old-age warships...
...world crisis yet came from the President. Resting during a long weekend at Hyde Park, the President spent his time planning to convert some swampland to truck farming. He entertained Crown Princess Martha of Norway, postponed his return to Washington when the weather cleared. With an almost ostentatious disregard of the news he spent the Sunday morning with members of the Chapel Corners Grange, although the mission from Moscow had been on hand a full day. Averell Harriman, keeping to the tempo of the time, flew from Moscow to London, broadcast a breathless speech of confidence in Russia, flew...
...month before they lined up, 50 miles apart, for the Battle of Louisiana, the soldiers of the two armies had been put through smaller-scale field maneuvers. They were in good training. Newsmen noted their endurance, their cheerful disregard of stream and swamp as they marched into position, their scrap and determination when the fight was on. Ben Lear's Red Army was given the northern position. Numerically inferior to the Blues (125,000 to 215,000), it had the advantage of the better position (close to the Red River) and the powerful punch of the First Corps...
...thought last week that the pundit's suggestion made scant sense. Even his conclusion-an appeal to the President to prove that he was honest in his promise not to engage U.S. troops on foreign battlefields-could be charged to a wistful faith in a commitment made in disregard of the facts of present-day international life...