Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other persons' children, while they are pliable . . . and form them according to their own manners...
...seems discouraging that the best College musical-drama in years played last night to a half-filled house. Menotti is not so gory as Titus or so airy as Gilbert, but Harvard should not neglect the most intense theater in Boston today. Larry Hartmann...
...solve the problem, some companies are turning to outside contractors who are willing to dip into the big pool of older women that regular employers neglect. Last year, for example, Milwaukee's Manpower. Inc., which has 90 branches in the U.S. and abroad, placed 50,000 such women (average age: 42) in temporary jobs, even used a retired 72-year-old secretary in Boston. Another line of attack is through increasing office mechanization. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. has recently set up a highly mechanized office in Harrison, N.Y., in which executives can dictate to 24 recording machines...
...through the Secretary-General, must continue to work patiently to reconcile both sides. The UN has an obligation to provide guarantees for Israel's security as well as for Egypt's and the United States should see that Hammarskjold in his eagerness to find a solution does not neglect these foundations for a lasting peace in the area...
Unlike poor Vincent van Gogh, who left his unsold paintings to his family only to have more than 500 of them disappear through carelessness and neglect, Abstractionist Wassily Kandinsky was a lucky man. He left a huge legacy of his work to his former mistress, and they survived world wars, revolutions, putsches, even the fury of a woman scorned. The woman scorned was Gabriele Munter, Kandinsky's mistress for more than 13 years, who never once looked at the pictures the old master left with her in 1914. Last month, on her 80th birthday, frail, white-haired Gabriele turned...