Word: neglected
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politicians are as suspect regarding family as they are regarding values. The blatant public manipulation of one's own family -- displaying spouse and kids in gauzy campaign commercials, on convention stages, in tearful speeches -- is by now a common practice among politicians. An even more common practice is the neglect of one's family. Ambitious politicians almost by definition find more fulfillment in coffee klatches and subcommittee meetings than at Little League and the PTA. Quayle's quite valid critique of Murphy Brown and single parenthood is especially poignant coming from a man who spent so much time away from...
...decades after it was abandoned as a dining hall in the mid-1920s, Memorial Hall was preserved only by neglect; many remember the administration's past hostility to the building, which was considered an unwanted remnant of the Victorian...
...studio arts program is "the least generously staffed" of the VES offerings, and partly as a result of this neglect, is "embryonic and parochial," the report said...
...raining, even pouring, but we went to the stadium anyway. It really made no sense, and we knew it, so thick were the forecast bands of precipitation. But with the scarier storm of a players' strike on the horizon, to neglect the tickets in our possession seemed suicidal...
...with complex family lives that are ever present in the narrative. In Phillips' depictions of both city and country life, evil is something children are pushed into by corrupt adults. Buddy's physical humiliation at the hands of his father is compared to the emotional bruises that divorce and neglect inflict on the campers...