Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louisiana's Democratic Representative Overton Brooks organized 100 greedy Congressmen in a bipartisan rump caucus, blithely added $86,376,000 in home-district chitterlings to the Public Works Bill (which included the TVA appropriations) in one of the most blatant congressional pork-barrel operations in years. Lamented Republican Glenn Davis of Wisconsin, in a futile motion to send the bill back to committee: "There is but one way that we can purge ourselves of the shame that has descended upon us here this afternoon, and that is to recommit this bill to the committee on appropriations." Brooks and friends...
Schlüter turned to politics, and displayed a blatant affinity for Naziism. "National Socialism is the most healthy movement in Germany since the turn of the century." he is reported to have shouted from a political platform. In the ultranationalist region of Lower Saxony and in the disorder of early postwar politics, such demagoguery served him well. But he always knew when to shift his line, when to recall his Jewish blood and pose as a victim of the Nazis...
...government of Premier Edgar Faure. Sitting in the visitors' gallery like a king, dispatching aides to and fro to collar Deputies, Poujade treated the Assembly to a Mussolini-like series of frowns and grins as he followed the debate. Rarely has the French Assembly seen so blatant a display from a pressure group. The Assembly, acutely sensitive to the opinion of France's shopkeepers, found it hard to refuse Poujade. Only the Catholic M.R.P., the Radical Socialists and some Independents put up stiff resistance. Faure himself compromised, agreed to call the Polyvalents off businesses grossing less than...
...screen caught the spectator in an emotional pincers movement and empathically lobstered him out of his seat; but in essence it was no more than a wraparound newsreel. Cinerama Holiday, in turn, is just an oversized travelogue, but a fairly lively and sometimes picturesque one. though often it is blatant enough to explain all those stories about Americans abroad...
...mention of race is taboo. One hair-lotion manufacturer wanted to begin a commercial: "Attention Negro women!" but was promptly turned down. The station manager knew any such blatant approach would alienate listeners...