Word: disregards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that all citizens were frightened during the Rochester riots is an understatement. More than that, we were just plain angry at this flagrant disregard for the responsible efforts being made to reduce racial tensions...
...comment on the judge, the jury and the city of Dallas. He charged that Ruby had been convicted by "the biggest kangaroo-court disgrace in the history of American law"; he called the verdict "a victory for bigotry and injustice." Craig complained publicly that Belli "should so flagrantly disregard the code of professional ethics and his oath as an attorney." He also suggested that Belli's membership in the A.B.A. might be revoked. Such statements, Belli decided, were defamatory and prejudicial to his professional standing. They would cut into his income. Last week he filed suit against Craig...
...under way, the presiding judge confided to Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, among others, that Sheppard was "guilty as hell." Contrary to settled law, he allowed the Cleveland police to testify that Sheppard had refused to take a lie-detector test, then failed to instruct the jury that they should disregard this testimony in their decision. Finally, even while the jurors were deliberating, they were allowed to phone their friends. No court official knew what was said...
Beards & Banns. To keep morale flying high in that way of life, Pan Am operates its "airline within an airline" with reckoned informality and a tolerant disregard for some rules that bind most other air crews. The 166 flight crewmen, some of whom have flown the Berlin run for more than a decade, have a certain derring-do, and Pan Am even allows them to cultivate combat-veteran beards. The 109 German stew ardesses are permitted to fly after they marry. Indeed, many are married to their own pilots...
...also unnecessary. In a divided Republican party, Dirksen could have rested comfortably on the other side. By supporting a candidate who must rely heavily on placating the South, Dirksen is potentially threatening the very bill he helped to pass, is acting with a cynical disregard for an issue which deeply troubles his party and as little as two weeks ago seemed deeply to trouble...