Word: neglectment
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Potential Challenge. Hughes may have been guilty of neglect-in the vital matter of leaving a will. One of his personal aides, who was questioned by police in Acapulco, said that Hughes had been supposed to sign an important document, possibly a will, several days before his death, but was too ill to do so. Noah Dietrich, Hughes' former chief lieutenant, said he had seen a will, but that was back in the 1950s. Investigators began a massive dragnet search for a will, combing through Hughes' old map cases, flight bags, books and safe-deposit boxes. They looked...
...been able to return to work. On February 17, when discussing with my co-workers five grievances I had just submitted that morning, I learned that Joseph had fallen while carrying food supplies from North House to Currier. This meant that Montville had ignored my earlier grievance and had neglected to enforce safe procedures. I was shocked and amazed at this neglect on the part of a man who is responsible for the safety of more than 100 employees...
America's great difficulty now, says Fairlie, lies in the people's neglect of their relationships as citizens and human beings. His solution would have Americans stop worrying about the tainted civilizations that they have too willingly accepted from Europe and return to the country's original and innocent vision. "The alienation of man from god, or man from nature, ought not to preoccupy us. The only alienation that matters is that of men from their society . . . It is only as a social being that the individual can be truly liberated." He is a little like...
...world seemed no more real than that of the Japanese soldier who belatedly emerged from the Phillipine jungle to obey his Emperor's surrender orders. The rest of the United States has managed to forget the years devoted to crushing the Communist island within ninety miles of our territory. Neglect has proved to be a simpler policy than military invasion...
...schools when they were in effect made instruments of social change. He himself is the first to point out that ten years after the Brown decision, only 1.17% of black schoolchildren were attending classes with white children in the states that once constituted the Confederacy. Nor does he neglect to mention that after 20 years 259 Chicago schools were 90% (or more) black, while 109 were 90% (or more) white. Yet obstinately, unfashionably-for surely this is not the civil rights '60s-he stands by his thesis...