Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jean Bullit Darlington's now-famous $100,000 law suit against the University for alleged neglect of a Rubens painting she sent to Fogg Museum for authentication was at legal logger-heads last night...
...does this view neglect to give the Government, on the credit side, allowance for all obstructions dropped in its path by Communist sabotage or for the wide and tragic war devastation that hinders recovery. It is a view that considers the performance of the Central Government on its merits...
...accuse by the record that the management and stockholders of the bituminous-coal industry in a period of 14 years have through mismanagement and cupidity and wanton neglect made dead 28,000 mine workers . . . shattered the bodies of 1,004,000 miners. . . . We accuse . . . we accuse . . . we accuse...
...Under the pressure of materialism and advertising and salesmanship, America's funerals have, within the past fifty years, degenerated into a pagan preoccupation with vulgar display and pagan concern for the body, to the almost total neglect of the spirit...
Logic alone would call the procedure ridiculous, for a fact-finding body is valueless unless the parties being investigated agree at the start to accept the philosophy of the committee and realize that any argument with its decisions can come only on the basis of neglect or misuse of the facts. Neither the cynical buck-passing of Prime Minister Attlee nor the hysterical Arabian harangues have dealt with the facts presented in the investigation; the complaints of Zionists and President Truman's spineless praise have been just as blissfully uncognizant of the realities of the present situation...