Word: neglectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neglect his state in an effort to attract a national following. We think he is not to be condemned for his aggressive efforts to attract industry and government proects, such as the NASA space center, to Massachusetts...
When big news is breaking fast, TIME'S editors believe in taking the time and the intensive effort to explain what it means. At the same time, they know they must not neglect the stories of trends and developments that may not make such black headlines but nevertheless add understanding and meaning to life...
Never one to neglect business, Cap took the little girl to his store every day for a while, sometimes let her sleep at night on a cot in his second-floor storeroom near what she recalls as "a row of peculiar long boxes." Her father told her they were "dry goods," but Lady Bird later learned they were coffins...
...most publicly visible symptoms of the dilemma, and the most pathetic, are the "latchkey kids." They are conspicuous in troubled Harlem, but are also observable in nearly every large U.S. city. Altogether, there are nearly 500,000 U.S. children who wear around their necks this symbol of desperation and neglect. The key unlocks half a million different doors, opens the way into half a million different, equally empty rooms. No one is ever waiting for the latchkey kids-at least not until Mother gets home from work...
...that the juvenile delinquency rate is more than double New York's or that the venereal disease rate among Harlem's youth is six times higher than in the rest of the city. Harlem is a mother lode of such statistics, but no footnoted chart on child neglect could reveal as much about the place as the story of the lost little girl of three who was not able to tell the police where she was from, and knew her mother only by the name she had heard around the house: "Bitch...