Word: neglect
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...history of Alaska," he said, "is a history of neglect as far as federal relations are concerned." Only by becoming a state, he argued, could Alaskans gain better transportation, better utilization of timber lands, funds for agricultural experiment, more schools and other practical foundations for a mature economy...
...deterring factor is the bias frequently encountered in teaching religion. But the College, Dean Sperry said, tends toward neglect...
...dangerous conditions existing in the mine more than a year ago, but only passed the knowledge on to the state government. If this is true .. . the widows and orphans of the men killed in the mine should take proper court action against Lewis and the union for criminal neglect in failing to call...
...attendant himself, first at a private institution and then at a huge VA mental hospital, Maine was so horrified at the treatment of patients that his own inner conflicts came to seem insignificant. He finally blamed the universal system of neglect less on attendants than on a public so indifferent that it would allow hospitals to be dark closets for storing the mental wreckage of modern civilization. When he quit his attendant's job to write a book, Maine was plenty mad-but not in a medical sense...
...nobody found Langley. Excited people thought they saw him, all over the city. But all the reports were wrong. The police speculated on another theory-that Langley had disappeared before the mysterious telephone call, that Homer had simply died of neglect. But where had he gone? Was Langley dead...