Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Birmingham, which has had over 50 cases so far this year compared with a prewar annual average of five, Health Officer Dr. George Ames Denison said that the typhus-infested rats which spread the disease are flourishing on wartime neglect in food shops, restaurants and garbage. Most Birmingham cases are workers in a five-block food and grain market section. Part of the trouble is the shortage of garbage cans and lids. Dr. Denison is especially worried by the fact that the rats are daily carrying germs in & out of town on trucks and railroad cars...
...Progressive Party almost died of neglect last week in its own stronghold, Wisconsin. In a state-wide primary, it barely got enough votes (about 28,000) to remain on the ballot.* The once lusty voice of the LaFollettes, loud enough to be heard across the nation in 1924-when "Old Bob" pulled 5,000,000 votes for President-had become afeeble whisper. This news overshadowed the fact that Republicans had won an impressive 75% of the state vote...
...reader of detective stories. New York City-born and Princeton-bred, he is tall, lean, dark, fastidious, athletic and adventurous, conceals a lively curiosity beneath an air of skeptical and somewhat bored amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long a TIME writer, principally of Sport and Cinema, he is now a LIFE editor and war correspondent...
Conclusion: "Producers of radio serials take pride in asserting that they give their audience exactly what it wants to get. . . . The consequence of such neglect is art that fails to entertain and that misleads instead of educating; education that bores and discourages because it is dry and lifeless ; entertainment that detracts from the aims and real satisfactions of life...
...reasons are several. As drama Falstaff is sketchy, gentle, lacking in emotional intensity. As music, Falstaff is a tapestry of lacy subtleties, so fragile that only the finest opera companies can perform it without tearing it to tatters. But perhaps the most important reason for Falstaff's neglect is the scarcity of baritones who can make its central figure a living character instead of an overstuffed clown...