Word: blatant
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China's blatant resort to force finally woke India up. Slowly Menon began to build up India's defenses in the Himalayas. Krishna Menon's troop units were strengthened with thousands of additional soldiers in N.E.F.A., Sikkim and Ladakh and issued new mountain fighting equipment. Some 4,000 miles of new military roads are being laid through the slopes to ease the problem of supply; bulldozers are shaving away hillsides to straighten out the hairpin turns in old roads. Most of the mountain roads, however, are still little better than mountain-goat paths on which, says...
John Archibald has made a serious charge in his recent letter to the CRIMSON in which he asserts that "blatant graft" exists in the handling of tickets within the Department of Athletics. It is not my desire to prolong the tempest brewed by his irresponsible charge, but as Director of Athletics, I feel compelled to comment that there has never been the slightest question as to the loyalty, honesty, and integrity of the ticket office staff...
...does to old athletes, friends of friends, big money-givers, old pals. It cares nothing about the students--the team's most loyal, vocal, and knowledgeable supporters. Why can't the ticket agency be completely separate from the HKA? It would then be less susceptible to the blatant graft which now exists. Why can't the students get a better and fairer deal? If we can't run it ourselves we can at least investigate it. Where is the Student Council (or whatever it is called), the CRIMSON, the House Committees? Why must we suffer under this humiliating and corrupt...
This general outline fails to convey the book's real interest, which lies in the misconceptions, contradictions, misinformation and blunders with which Britain and her allies approached this crucial period in Russian history. British policy was based on fundamental misconceptions from start to finish. Most blatant was the assumption that the Bolsheviks would profit from a renewed war effort: the resting period provided by Brest-Litovsk was vital to the consolidation of the Soviet regime and Lenin and Trotsky had no desire to involve themselves with one of the "bourgeois" alliances...
Alfred E. Vellucci, whose customary comic performances have ceased to be funny this year. During the campaign, Vellucci has attempted to make hasty, blatant political hay of almost all legislation and several times has displayed discourtesy in the Council chamber...