Word: blatantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hoak's blatant assault on the rules was too much. From now on, said National League President Warren Giles, if an umpire thinks that a runner has deliberately interfered with a batted ball in order to break up a double play, both the runner and the man behind him on the base paths will be called...
...resents the almost blatant elements of explicit and implied propaganda that Messrs. Franklin and White have sandwiched into the scenario--the glories of Mexico; its glorious revolutionary history, superior view of life, the strong, brave, noble Mexican people, their gallant revolutionary leaders. All this is mixed with a subtle anti-Americanism. But these factors do not intrude on the skill and beauty with which the film is handled. Indeed the propaganda's very painlessness makes it insidious, giving strength to the allegation of Communist influence amidst the script writers...
...Vatican bobbled the dialectic ball again. That the staid St. Bernardino of Siena should be the patron saint of advertisers [Feb. 4] and bandied about by the mass-media Babbitts is unforgivable. Our blatant and vulgar advertising is the one crack in our picture window that anti-Americans point to as our literary output. Madison Avenue's grey flannel mouthings could never wear Bernardino's hair shirt...
...British-French were responsible for the Suez catastrophe when the U.S. had striven desperately to prevent it, even Mike Mansfield left himself open to the counterblast of Wisconsin's Alex Wiley that the patently anti-Dulles nature of the stalling on the crisis was "blatant, befuddled badgering," and that the U.S. people would so judge...
...these facile anodynes are clearly inadequate to dismiss the tragedy of brutal slaughter, the blatant violation of every civilized principle of right and humanity that Soviet tanks are enacting in the streets of Budapest. Nehru the nationalist, the anti-colonialist, the champion of humanism has played a sorry card; there can be little doubt about that...