Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blasted their way into the Quang Nam jail with satchel charges. They killed the superintendent and wounded five of his men before fading back into the jungle with the freed prisoners, of whom 190 were later recaptured. While launching their attacks at main targets, the Communists did not neglect their campaign of terror and harassment against South Vietnamese villages and hamlets. A Viet Cong force overran the coastal hamlet of Guan Co, also near Danang, just before dawn, inflicted heavy casualties on the little Vietnamese milita post guarding the town and burned down 44 dwellings...
...college, who was an early enthusiastic backer of the plan and to whom the major credit for its eventual acceptance is due. In contrast, Brewster was originally skeptical, fearing with some justification that it might lead science students to avoid the liberal arts completely, and liberal arts students to neglect the sciences. However, his pragmatic spirit prevailed and he agreed to a trial...
...noted, our wars in the past have been fought on something close to unanimity rule. And they have always had the part of the population that now opposes in full support. That it is wise to act in neglect of the informed, articulate and young -- that they can be ignored as somehow morally as well as numerically inferior -- is far from proven. On the contrary, it is likely to be rembered as one of the cardinal political errors of modern times. In American life, it has long been my observation that the intellectual, so-called, is fashionably dismissed...
Last week, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to the first American festival of Czechoslovak films-a moviegoer's feast of a dozen pictures never before shown in the U.S. Anxious to avoid their past neglect, commercial exhibitors snapped up five of them before the festival opened; more are almost certain to be booked. The distributors are making no mistake. Based on the festival evidence, it is clear that the Czech New Wave may soon reach tidal proportions. Four of the most interesting features...
More than neglect, there is a positive disdain for anything that smacks of professionalism: training, preparation or the patient and painful mastery of the literature, difficulty by difficulty. The Harvard musician thinks he is above all that, and sees no reason why he should not tackle the most difficult works at the start. He's knowledgeable and versed enough in recordings to know which pieces are considered the best and the most difficult and it's hard for him to see how anything else would be worth his while...