Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gunfire as well as oratory before it was over, since thousands of ex-guerrillas still keep their arms in the hills of Luzon. But it was too early to guess at the outcome. Smart, flashy Manuel Roxas would have the edge in political sex appeal, and Philippine voters traditionally disregard platforms and causes to vote for personal reasons. He has always been popular with Juan de la Cruz, the Filipino man-in-the-street. Rumor had it that several rich island families would back him in buying up blocs of votes from local political leaders-a custom which every candidate...
...with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased disregard of the atomic age and all waiters...
Dean Hanford and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences have had to rely on some reports prepared by committees of the Student Council in years past to discover what students think about education. The Undergraduate Organizational Committee on the General Education Report has stormed against "the apparent disregard of student opinion" shown by the Dean's office and the Faculty in its consideration of the General Education proposals--but the whole thing has been something of a tempest in a teapot...
Nearly all of the Germans were polite (Goethe once wrote: ". . . when one is polite in German, one lies"). With a sublime and staggering disregard of their responsibility for the war, many of them had expected a great deal from the peace. Their expectations were intensely personal: a better life and an easier one, fewer regulations and more freedom for them selves, if not for their occupied country...
...main blind spots in the peace plans," stated the psychologist, "is an immaculate disregard for human nature." There is no mention of children or education, no mention of public opinion or democracy or the Four Freedoms or the common man. Until the politicians at San Francisco realize the importance of human nature, peace plans are doomed to failure...