Word: blatant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jewish citizenship, Eichmann was more knowledgeable. It was the result "of the initiative of the division in the Interior Ministry under Hering and Globke." The pointed mention of Dr. Hans Globke, now West Germany's Cabinet Secretary and one of Chancellor Adenauer's closest advisers, was a blatant effort to bolster his argument that he was the little man being picked on, while the really big Nazis went free...
Mandingo (by Jack Kirkland; based on Kyle Onstott's novel) makes mere plot seem an anachronism, it has so much erupting at such lurid levels, so much more belching forth when nothing more seems possible. Except for its blatant treatment of sex, Mandingo would itself seem an anachronism, written in 1832 as well as taking place then. The scene is an Alabama plantation, with Franchot Tone as an aging, tippling, crotchety slave breeder and seller. Among his slaves are drunkards, onetime bedmates, "rheumatiz boys," and three Mandingos (so named for their ancestral African tribe), who to preserve their pure...
...Cincinnati. The town's traditions trace back to the female followers who camped around the local U.S. Army barracks in the 19th century. Since then, Newport has developed such a gaudy brand of gambling and prostitution that it stands today as one of the nation's most blatant sin centers...
...very serious thing." Ambassadors are not governments; yet even Brazil's Jânio Quadros, leading exponent of mediation before the Cuban defeat, was reported to be in favor of some form of OAS sanctions. Known to be deeply shocked at Castro's blatant Communism, Quadros last week issued a joint statement with Argentine President Arturo Frondizi, calling on Latin American nations to repel "any direct or indirect interference of extracontinental forces...
Labor disputes over what union does which jobs have produced continual strife, frequent strikes-and some blatant featherbedding. At Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., according to testimony by former Air Force Contracting Officer Euell Hodge, manifolds that are used to link up the hydraulic systems in the silo arrived from the factory already assembled. The pipefitters demanded that they be allowed to disassemble them and put them together again. Finally, they agreed to settle for "blessing" the manifolds-standing idly by the new equipment for the number of hours they would otherwise have spent assembling it-while, of course, drawing...