Word: disregarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swift Boot. In secret investigations the courts and even the Israeli Cabinet cleared Lavon of any responsibility. Furious at this disregard of his opinion, Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister, forced his Mapai Party to choose between himself and Lavon. The party's central committee swiftly capitulated, booted Lavon out of his job as secretary-general of Histadrut, the potent Israeli labor federation. But audiences in Israeli movie houses booed news films of Ben-Gurion, cheered those of Lavon. Nevertheless, last week Ben-Gurion was prepared to resume his post as Prime Minister when he was disconcertingly balked: four...
...Socialists in Parliament, for whose stodgy, bourgeois caution Renard has undisguised contempt, were as aghast as anyone at Renard's disregard for orderly processes. In the debate on Eyskens' controversial bill, Socialist members made it clear they were prepared to compromise if a face-saving device could be found. "We must discuss things together," admitted Socialist ex-Premier Achille van Acker. In return, Eyskens agreed to consider a Socialist amendment. Then, exhausted, the Premier fainted in the Chamber, was led away to a sickbed before the vote on the measure brought victory to the government...
...Excellence. The bill failed, but it echoed the inglorious 1940s, when the university regents fired able President Homer Rainey, who had accused them of imperiously firing facultymen with a total disregard for academic freedom. The regents replaced Rebel Rainey with a tamer president, Zoologist Theophilus S. Painter, who devoted himself to fruit-fly research. They also dumped famed Author J. Frank Dobie, Texas' top folklorist, who refused to stop protesting the Rainey firing. By the time Texas-born Logan Wilson became president in 1953, the eyes of U.S. scholars were on Texas as a good place to avoid...
Attorney Phillip M. Cronin '53 protested that the Cambridge Planning Board had "spot-zoned" the Observatory Hill area in order that Harvard might construct apartment buildings there. Downgrading of the "high-class" residential area was unwarranted since 1943 and had been done with total disregard for his 252 clients, he declared...
...Hopkins football squad, understandably, is lackadaisical, even if their playing doesn't show it," distortion is just around the corner. Hopkins' coach, Wilson Fewater, although he has never had a losing season, "is, as might be expected, a case study in almost total frustration," the article assumes, with blithe disregard for rationality...