Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge police will tow away all cars parked in blatant violation of existing ordinances in the future, City Councillor Marcus Morton, Yale '16, vowed yesterday. He introduced a resolution to this effect into the City Council this week...
Lady Macbeth, too, remains something of an enigma. Barbara Forester plays the part with a good deal of vigor and violence, both of which are appropriate in spots, but not throughout. Her malice and ambition could be more impressive if they were less blatant, and her occasional shrewishness obscures understanding of her subtly poisonous influence upon her husband...
...Vice President's home state there was a growing uproar about his new political position. California's Republican Governor Goodwin J. Knight, irrepressible as ever, made the blatant announcement that he will head a favorite son delegation to the Republican National Convention next year if President Eisenhower does not run, even if that means an open fight with Nixon. This was too much for California's Republican Representative Carl Hinshaw, a friend of Nixon, who said that he was appalled at Knight's "amazing antics" and "fantastic pretensions." Roared Hinshaw: "Except in the ambitious dreams...
...real intent, much of what passed across the nation's television screens last week was also devoted to selling some sort of product, tangible or intangible. At least three of the top shows of the week, Disneyland, Warner Brothers Presents, and the M-G-M Parade were blatant commercials from beginning to end, designed only to lure viewers away from their telesets and into the nearest movie house...
...club's haughty doormen, bounced inside to utter some dock-walloper pleasantries. To some of London's uppercrustiest, amazonian Mrs. Braddock announced: "I intend as a reciprocal arrangement to invite Miss Dietrich along to the House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face...