Word: overlook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best is this boat tour that leaves the docks of the Manchester Yacht Club under the direction of a number of neighborhood women. Ostensibly the tours, led by bossy old ladies with cutesy-tough names like Muggins and Bet, ostensibly introduce interested alumni to the fine homes that overlook the coastline's coves. But, as Muggins confided to her coworkers, "Hah, I don't waste my time gushing on about all those old houses. I just let 'em all chew about their children- that's all they want to do anyway...
...Kissinger placed such high hopes in Governor Rockefeller? Not because he was necessarily more "liberal," but because he was more intimately familiar with the nature of American interests-and more willing to overlook popular opinion in order to pursue them. For Rockefeller was one of that elitist milieu which was steadfast in its convictions and highly contemptuous of public will whenever it intruded on those convictions...
...Barnaby pointed out the failings of the press this year: "Joe's tremendous physical talents have led the press to overlook his strength of character. I campaigned for Joe on his integrity and his devotion to fair play. That's what makes a great sportsman rather than just a great athlete...
...considerable extent, the present situation must be explained by Harvard's history. A male bastion for more than three centuries, growing over time from a denominational men's college to a major university, Harvard has been slow to recognize changes in ideas about sex roles. It has tended to overlook injustices and has continued to "do business in the usual manner." But we have now reached that point which usually precedes significant change: when the injustice is so visible and the discontent so apparent that few can doubt the need for reform...
...report released this week, the Committee calls Harvard "a male bastion for more than three centuries [which] has been slow to recognize changes in ideas about sex roles" and "tended to overlook injustices." The report continues, "But we have now reached that point which usually precedes significant change, when the injustice is so visible and the discontent so apparent that few can doubt the need for reform...