Word: neglectment
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Mississippi Democrat Jamie L. Whitten, subcommittee chairman, summed up: "We are not trying to neglect civil defense ... If it were humanly possible and within financial reach to give complete protection from the atomic bomb . . . that would be the desire of all of us. But . . . you cannot build enough holes in the ground with all the money in the federal...
...Administration's Far East policy has been a catastrophic failure . . . the most desolate ... in the history of our foreign policy . . ." Notable exception: Japan, where General MacArthur was in charge. The Administration has been "unduly preoccupied with the defense of America in Europe, to the neglect of the defense of America in Asia ... It is unfortunate, but true, that the State Department has been affected by a group who have interpreted Asiatic problems to the advantage of Russia rather than that of the United States . . . The truth about the pro-Communist State Department group has not yet been revealed...
...years' time, "the volcano of Paricutin in Mexico . . . floods in Guatemala, seismic catastrophes in El Salvador and Ecuador, civil strife in Colombia and an earthquake in Cuzco have all taken a tragic toll." Worst of all, according to Kelemen: civil authorities who are letting local masterpieces deteriorate through neglect-or are tearing them down to make way for widened streets and modern buildings...
...expansion . . . had been reached, and the competition of the United States and Europe was just beginning to be felt. But the lack of serious competition hitherto had bred a feeling of overconfidence and satisfaction . . . The result was a conservative attitude towards technical change and, particularly in the older industries, neglect of scientific research . . . It is significant that the history of production engineering after 1890 is almost entirely confined to the United States...
...traditions must help each other or be lost. Catholics need "a passionate Evangelical zeal for teaching and preaching the truth. They must not neglect that sword of the spirit which is the Word of God." Evangelicals, in their turn, "must recognize the need for due order and authority within the Church. They must recapture the reality of the supernatural in the sacraments . . . With the common enemy at the gate, how criminal that the garrison should be divided by labels which in reality are . . . but obverse and reverse of the one saving truth...