Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when it still has the basic courses. It should strive for increased number of teachers, attraction of better-known professors to the University and it should close the historical gaps which beset current English majors. Most especially, it should have the foresight to make allowances for sickness, thus avoiding blatant course omissions...
...stout defense of himself from the pulpit of the Springfield, Ill. Presbyterian Church. Departing from the Scripture to comment on current events, the Rev. Richard Graebel thundered that Republican Senator Everett Dirksen's statement that Stevenson was the worst Illinois governor of the 20th century was "a blatant lie." Said Pastor Graebel later: he was not aware that the governor was in his church...
...they'd have to play everyone. These two, for example, don't happen to like Penn's obvious attempts to field a Big Time team, and prefer not to play the Quakers at all. Furthermore, if all the league were included in this statement it would represent the most blatant act of athletic hypocrisy since Villanova was heaved out of the NCAA, inasmuch as several Ivy Towers do dole out athletic scholarships...
...ready to conquer Manhattan. He had $7½-million with him, and he was ready to bet it all on his new paper, the Morning Journal. One day Hearst rocked Pulitzer by buying away the entire Sunday staff of his World-including Morrill Goddard, who was to steer the blatant American Weekly toward the world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare-head-hunting game. It was the Hearst-Pulitzer tug-of-war over Richard...
Kohlberg sent the letter to every member of Congress (Lieut. Evans had given him permission to publish it). The Navy, getting wind, let out an outraged howl at so blatant a defiance of regulations, convened a Board of Inquiry. Last week the Navy found Lieut. Evans guilty of "grave misconduct" for his abusive language and breach of clearance regulations, stripped him of his commission, and gave him a discharge...