Word: overlooks
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...Democrats did not overlook the fact that they had some wonderfully interesting female exhibits: two lady diplomats, one lady treasurer, two lady vice-presidential aspirants and one world-famous lady delegate to the United Nations. Unlike the Republicans, the Democratic program-makers managed to give the impression that they were proud of their women leaders. However, the Democratic women speakers, like the Republican women before them, tended to take off from the phrase "we women" in discussing all problems-as if women were either class B or class AA citizens...
...Bless You, Sir." Said the Manchester Guardian: "Both the beauty of the drawings and the depth of the observation are expressed so quietly that the casual observer may easily overlook them." Said Sir John Rothenstein, director of London's Tate Gallery: "Keene is unquestionably the greatest of the great number of artists thrown up by day-to-day drawing. His drawings are a revelation...
...called "Regatta Weekend." We might ignore the emergence of straw hats connected with this "weekend," hoping that like the Confederate caps of yesterday month they would pass away and not turn us into a replica of a certain college in the New Jersey mud flats. We might even overlook the massing of more than a sixth of the College into a gymnasium where for an exorbitant price a student was permitted to transport himself and one friend through a dark steamy atmosphere for the better part of four hours; that is a matter of individual taste. But when the regattas...
...particular sentences. For example, O'Neill states: "Discussing the Catholic school system, Mr. Blanshard reports, with no evidence of documentation, 'very few non-Catholics know anything about it and Catholic laymen get their over-all picture from the self-serving declarations of their hierarchy.'" But O'Neill seems to overlook the fact that the idea behind the sentence is quite carefully documented at a more logical place elsewhere in the volume...
...study employed specialists in all fields relevant to crime in order not to overlook any promising leads to crime causation. As the Gluecks themselves put it. "Our task is to discover the patterns of factors from all areas of the investigation which in their dynamic interplay and combined weight are causal of persistent delinquency...