Word: overlooking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year. In part, ropes and links of gold simply highlight the return of the waist. For some women, too, there seems to be satisfaction in once again playing the slave girl; for others, the fun is in sounding like a percussion section of the band. And never overlook the part played by envy: there had to be some way of one-upping all those dandy men with big medallions around their necks...
...thing, any poll sponsored by a candidate is quite possibly slanted. Polls conducted by newspapers may also be unreliable because they do not test a true random sample but measure a floating population on street corners and in bars, tending to overlook housewives, elderly people and stay-at-homes. The best polls are those conducted by established, well-known polling organizations that regularly publish results. Even these may be suspect if the sample was less than 1,000, the question is unstated, and the poll was taken more than two weeks before publication...
...Heartiest congratulations to President Peterson on keeping her cool in the Linda Le Clair affair [April 26]. The problem is not Barnard's, or that of any college. It was produced-and must be accepted by-the adult community. What I rebellious students overlook is the immutable equation that if one would contest the paternalistic supervision of the college, he must accept the legalistic restrictions and moral consequences of society. Even if Linda makes the minor point that some of the residential requirements of the college may trespass upon what she claims as her individual rights, has she proved...
...protesting activists, still a very small minority, overlook the accomplishments of society but criticize its shortcomings. Possibly idealistic but skeptical of ideologies, they contend that governments have not performed up to their original promises. The student leftists disdain Soviet-style Communism as spiritually corrupt. The democrats fault the West's inequalities of wealth and race...
...ever, shocked foreigners seem to overlook conditions elsewhere. U.S. violence has never matched the Japanese rape of Nanking or the massacre of 400,000 Communists in Indonesia. Watts and Detroit were tea parties compared with assorted mass slaughters in India, Nigeria and Red China. What country has the world's highest homicide rate? El Salvador, with 30.1 deaths per 100,000 people. In comparison, the U.S. rate stands at around...