Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decrepit jalopy that explodes as often as the trick clowns' car in the Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. And when his son Dude (William Tracy) goes hog-wild with a brand-new Ford, the effect is of violent slapstick rather than of a moron's disregard for mechanical decency. As Jeeter's daughter Ellie May, Actress Gene Tierney had herself systematically dirtied every day. But, typically enough of Hollywood, the events leading up to the grime did not include giving Ellie May the hare lip she has in the stage play. Typically also, old Jeeter finally...
...Conant and worked out the present regulations. It was felt at that time that progress had been made, that the new rules would remove the difficulty and would work out in practice. Unfortunately those hopes have been in vain; for unenforceable restrictions, exasperating red tape, and encouragement of a disregard for University rules in general have had only an adverse effect on students and tutors as well as the Dean's Office. Adoption of the Council committee's report would bring things up to date and would furthermore be in line with the reasonable theory that Harvard men are adults...
Stylistically the direct antithesis of the polished type of swing that has become extremely popular, Fats and his boys have a way of playing which is so completely effortless that the casual listener often tends to disregard the band and go on to something with more flash and immediate appeal. Yet take it from me, with the exception of the Red Allen band at New York's Cafe Society, you won't hear better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus...
Today Congress has before it a bill designed to implement that policy. Commonly known as the "Lease-Lend Bill," this document gives to the Chief Executive wide powers to aid Britain. It empowers him to disregard the Johnson Act and the Neutrality Act. It gives him sole authority over the terms of the transactions whereby American war material of all kinds is to be manufactured and transferred to the British. It grants him the authority to sell, exchange, lease, or lend guns, munitions, aircraft, vessels, machinery, tools, supplies, and military information...
...bill would give the President, the power to place our 'entire army and navy equipment' in the war, to make the Atlantic coast a theatre of war by opening our harbors to the British navy, and to disregard 'all existing legislation with which it comes into conflict'," the statement reads...