Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tastee Restaurant, in Harvard Square. The Tastee Restaurant is crammed in between The Wusthaus and the liquor store in the very heart of Harvard Square. However, the locale only makes the Tastee easier to overlook. Superficially, this spot seems the cleanest of all the greasy-spoon joints in this town, but it is also the smallest, with only a dozen seats around a counter. The Tastee has its regulars, but as it fronts the Square, it generally caters to an older and non-Harvard clientele. The food is good and reasonably-priced, and the close quarters lead to inevitable conversation...
...Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod we have known is dead. The institution that has given us life is no more. Its structures are hopelessly corrupt. Its leadership is morally bankrupt. Its rank-and-file members have chosen to ignore and overlook evil...
Looking from the outside, no one can say what any marriage is really like, but even during their private hours the Nixons were often apart. No one could overlook the many weekends he went off to Camp David or to the Bahamian island of Robert Abplanalp with Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, leaving Pat alone. Her own staff bristled at the way he ignored her in public appearances, and there were few of the usual affectionate gestures between husband and wife...
...Professor Francis M. Rogers. It may well be that Professor Rogers's Euro-centric vision of the African experience, which has occasionally compelled him to describe Portuguese colonies as "provinces" in defiance of historically established practice as well as current United Nations parlance, has this time led him to overlook African initiative in the wars of liberation now in progress. I get this impression from Professor Rogers's characterization of President Antonio de Spinola of Portugal, whom he portrays as a benevolent ruler ready to hand out independence to the colonies at appropriate intervals...
...entrance to the Kennedy Museum will feature a 30-foot lens-shaped wall, covered by a tapestry and illuminated with light from a skylight. A bust of the late president will stand in front of a glass wall which will overlook the Charles River...