Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battlefields, the Viet Cong were still making war in their own macabre way. Two American prisoners of war, Captain Humbert R. Versace and Sergeant Kenneth M. Roraback, were executed by the Communists in reprisal for Saigon's shooting of three Danang agitators. The Reds' disregard of the Geneva Convention could only be termed murder-which is precisely what the U.S. branded it last week...
Specifically, Shaddeg was irritated by what seemed to be an almost systematic disregard for sound political advice. He accuses Goldwater of abandoning proven political talent. He is particularly bitter about the relegation of Clift White-early genius of the campaign-to a secondary status in the Goldwater camp. He bristles over things like the "naming of four relatively unknown Arizonans as campaign directors." And the why of it all is simple, as Shaddeg sees...
...Must we disregard literacy qualifications for voting to prove ourselves nondiscriminatory [Aug. 13]? Wouldn't national standardization of registration tests be more desirable by helping Americans to realize that although voting is a right, it is above all a responsibility...
...mostly on three Negro city councilmen and "a fine group of Negro ministers" to keep him in touch with the Black Channel−which regards Yorty's men as Uncle Toms. As a result, says a Los Angeles Negro psychiatrist, black Angelenos feel that they are victims of "disregard, hypocritical attitudes and paternalism...
...numerous British novelists who produce short, superbly written books on subjects of total inconsequence: Octogenarian Frank Swinnerton, for example, who learned to write when Proust was an apprentice, and has turned out more than 30 novels of manners and malice (his latest: Quadrille) with a fine disregard for every development in fiction over the past 60 years...