Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...
...policeman whether to make an arrest or let the child go. Such power in the hands of a policeman may lead to serious abuses. Suppose a boy steals. His parents manage to make restitution. Or the frantic mother goes to any length to persuade the officer to overlook the offense. Or the case is dealt with by voluntary agencies. That couldn't happen in England. There, if a boy is caught, he must come before the court. That is bet ter, both for society and for the boy. Juvenile delinquency is a moral disease. In England the delinquent goes...
Although a final solution has not been reached, it seems doubtful that both sides will ever be completely happy. The editors will feel uneasy because the conflict is apt to be solved on legal rather than on moral grounds. A legal decision would overlook the original cry of the Texan--"The Texan cannot yield. To do so would be to deny the principle of a campus free from coercion...
...varsity hockey team's chances of receiving a return invitation to the NCAA championships in Colorado got a substantial boost from Saturday's victory over Boston College. Coach Cooney Weiland remarked yesterday that if the Crimson wins its four remaining games, "I don't see how they can overlook...
Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...