Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most strategic holds was in Nigeria's Western region, where Chief Samuel Akintola's pro-North government faced apparently overwhelming opposition. Akintola himself had little popular support; he had been appointed Premier three years ago after a blatant power play that sent anti-North Chief Obafemi Awolowo to jail. But when regional assembly elections rolled around last month, Akintola showed that there was more than one way to win the West. To the surprise of hardly anyone, he rigged the elections...
...violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Law of 1964, which forbids discrimination in federally-aided programs. The law does not prohibit de facto segregation, only willful segregation of the uneven allocation of resources. Although $34 million in funds were briefly withheld from Chicago this fall, due to fairly blatant violations of the law, they were soon reinstated. In Boston it appears that some white neighborhoods, such as Charleston, receive just as raw a deal in education as does Roxbury...
Such stomach-turning reality never seems mere sensationalism, for Forbes says all there is to say about a fly-infested pesthole where honor gives way to hunger, where blatant homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world...
Once more, the prosecution led FBI Informant Gary Rowe through his tale of unprovoked violence. Once more, the defense hammered away at alleged inconsistencies in the testimony of prosecution witnesses. Shying away from the blatant racism of the late Matt Murphy, who defended Wilkins at the last trial, Attorney Arthur Hanes told the jury it had to choose between the "Judas goat," Gary Rowe, and the "scapegoat," Collie Wilkins. If you do not vote for conviction, countered Attorney General Flowers, "the blood of this man's sin will stain your county for eternity...
...comme un jour-it dawns, it dies. C'est fini, he cries, with desolate finality. You've Let Yourself Go is an unsparing plaint of conjugal disenchantment. Aznavour has none of the rakish charm of Maurice Chevalier, the ebullient high spirits of Charles Trenet, or the blatant sex appeal of Yves Montand. But he has two qualities that none of them possess with the same intensity-fire and sorrow. He was trained by Edith Piaf, and if one closes one's eyes, one can hear her pain as well as her phrasing in his voice. Aznavour...