Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pampero's blatant propaganda was merely annoying to most Argentines. They were more worried by reports seeping back from Misiones Territory in the north. For half a century Germans have talked intermittently of political and military as well as economic penetration in South America. And last week Argentines remembered that Adolf Hitler said: "We shall create a new Germany there. We shall find everything we need there...
Just after filing his monopoly report last week, up for reappointment came Commissioner Brown. He faced unexpected opposition. New Hampshire's blatant Senator Tobey ignored his party line to belabor a fellow Republican. Equipped with a portfolio crammed with documents, Tobey bellowed a demand for facts concerning a "wild party" given in New York by WMCA's President Donald Flamm, and attended by Brown. When Brown refused to discuss the affair, Tobey leered and boomed: "And is it true that one of the men at the party ran his hand up a woman's leg?" Later...
...unifying loyalty cannot be founded on words alone. In the past decade the younger generation has seen the old stereotypes which constitute much of the "American tradition" used as tools of reaction. The blatant optimism of the twenties did not ring true in the thirties. In the disillusionment and ideological disintegration of the past ten years, young people have sought new standards, new and more active social philosophies. Many thought they had found them in the New Deal...
...conscious. Uruguay set up a "Dies" committee to ferret out wide-flung Nazi activities. Argentine police seized secret Nazi radio stations and broke up street demonstrations while Government officials warned Argentines that Hitler rule would destroy the civilization of centuries. Newspapers in Bolivia and Chile clamored for suppression of blatant Nazi activities. Colombia became jittery over the possibility of sabotage to her oil lines. Latin Americans suddenly realized what Germans have long known, namely that nowhere else in the world is the ground more fertile for sprouting fifth columns, and nowhere has Nazi infiltration been more assiduously fostered...
...among its editors being two literate Leftists named Philip Rahv and William Phillips. Writer Dupee meanwhile drank at the revolutionary fount in Mexico, returned to Manhattan to work for the New Masses. What threw him and Rahv and Phillips together and incidentally off the orthodox Party line was the blatant Soviet tyranny over culture, the Soviet political debacle of the Moscow Trials...