Word: neglecting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctor and the chief of the household. Even in emergencies, no case could be admitted to the hospital without consultation with the family head; week after week Barker dispatched telegrams to the mines near Johannesburg, hoping to reach some far-off Zulu father before his child died of neglect...
Presidential Promises. Magalhaes is determined to correct the federal government's neglect of the state. "We have reached the utmost limits of human distress," Magalhaes says bitterly. The Sao Paulo newspaper 0 Estado agrees with him: "The nation has bled Bahia...
Pain & Sorrow. His portraits were almost ruthless in their candor. He did not even try to conceal the pain that his neglect had caused his wife, or paint out the sadness imprinted on his children's faces (see color). In time the painting joined the collection of Basilius Ame-bach, whose wise and scholarly father, Bonifacius (see color), began rounding up Holbein canvases during the first convulsive years of the Reformation. After Basilius' death, the city and the university bought the Amerbach collection, which they own to this day. It is Basel's permanent tribute...
...persuade his friend (they first met in the Louisiana maneuvers in 1941) to run for the G.O.P. nomination. After Ike agreed to run, Lodge worked hard managing the difficult, pre-convention campaign until, because of his incautious arrogance, he was replaced by Sherman Adams. This same snootiness, plus a neglect of his home ground, caused him that same year to lose his Senate seat to a persuasive upstart named Jack Kennedy. Eisenhower appointed him U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (says Lodge: "I have reason to be grateful to Kennedy. It's because of him that I went...
...would hesitate to vote for Senator Kennedy, who has already shown neglect of his senatorial duties for some six months...