Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...infrequent occasions when newscasters note that Defferre has delivered a speech, they studiously overlook his critiques of Gaullism. This is especially important since polls show that Defferre, mayor of Marseille, is still unknown to 42% of the nation's populace. Firing off an acid letter to the President, Defferre asked whether his exposure problem might be "because I am a candidate for the presidency." Of course De Gaulle did not reply. Instead, his aides made the blackout official by decreeing that presidential candidates would be allowed only two hours each of radio and TV time, and then only during...
...Jessup's writing is so hypnotic that one can easily overlook the time-worn plot...
...personal Impression of the man; of the tensions between his ideology and his way of life. I did not bother to write of these contradictions because I fear the student's mind is waxen, but because the student longs for an adult to champion his cause and will overlook much when rendered this service...
...town sits a new Nazareth, settled by 8,000 Jews who take their economic lessons from the Book of Progress. The new town boasts a textile mill, chocolate-processing plant, 750-seat movie theater and 48-store shopping center. Being built is an 80-unit housing development whose windows overlook Mount Tabor, the site of Christ's Transfiguration, and nearby Cana, the scene of his first miracle. The new Nazareth is the work of Rassco, a broad-ranging corporation that has become Israel's largest private employer...
...Rain. "I rate women," says Sergeant Steve McQueen, "the way schoolteachers mark tests. A, B, C, D, E, F-and Incomplete." On the McQueen Scale, Heroine Tuesday Weld is regretfully rated Incomplete. She has everything a girl could possibly have-except a brain. Sergeant McQueen is generously inclined to overlook the omission, but Sergeant Jackie Gleason is definitely not. "She's an imbecile!" he snorts. "You're a jelly belly!" she screeches. "And what's more I want you to know I'm a senior in high school!" Jackie sighs deeply: "And what did you learn...