Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington's U.S. Attorney David G. Bress, who has written a short rebuttal to Freedman's law-review article, the professor's opinions totally overlook the command of Canon 5, requiring a defense lawyer to use "all fair and honorable means." To Bress, "This can only mean defending without the use of known perjury." In a letter to the Washington grievance committee, on the other hand, University of Pennsylvania Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam defended Freedman's original lecture as "a probing and responsible attempt to answer difficult and intensely practical problems created by our adversary system...
...truth? Quite often, the defendant later recants, forcing courts to determine the voluntariness of his confession. The issue becomes a "swearing contest" between the scruffy confessor and three or four detectives who swear they never coerced him. Understandably, most judges and juries prefer to believe policemen; indeed, judges overlook trickery in the squeal room that would shock them in the courtroom...
Then, with a slight sinking sensation, noticed something he hopes the Dean's office will overlook...
Arguments against the foreign language requirement seem to be an unavoidable aspect of Harvard life. Debate has ranged from charges that it is a foolish nuisance to sweeping condemnations of nearly all departments involved. But most of these criticisms have a purely personal basis and overlook the important reasons for maintaining the requirement. The report submitted by Dean Whitla and the Committee on Teaching should help clarify the situation...
Mother, though not always in the money, saw to it that young George became a spiffy dresser, and for a time he found work as a male model. He wangled his way to Hollywood with the aid of Mother's good friend, Actress Mae Murray. Never one to overlook an angle, he bought a 1939 Rolls-Royce -and thus began "my image of the rich boy dabbling in pictures...