Word: blatantness
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...PSLM chose to diverge from its past tactics when it initiated the sit-in. Unlike the PSLM “occupation” of Byerly Hall last spring, which sought to raise awareness of the living wage without interfering with registration for Pre-Frosh Weekend, this action was a blatant disruption of University life. The protesters sought to compel Harvard to agree to PSLM’s demands through their control of administrative offices—a tactic that was inappropriate for the cause...
Police Chief M.T. Berry says it wasn't until 1999 that the department had any reason to be suspicious about her work. That's when federal Judge Ralph Thompson lit into her for "untrue" testimony and the "blatant withholding of unquestionably exculpatory evidence" in the rape and murder trial of Alfred Brian Mitchell. (Thompson overturned the rape conviction but let the murder stand.) In March 2000 Gilchrist was put out to pasture at a police equine lab, where she says she had to do "demeaning tasks" like count test tubes...
...After Harvard Film Archive staff failed to poster an outside kiosk earlier this year, Harvard Film Archive manager Julie A. Buck recalls, Killip left a large hand-written note on the wall, saying, “this is the most blatant show of incompetency, even for you people.” One staff member complained directly to Ervin that Killip told three staff members he watched them “all the time...
...episode, laden with sexual innuendos and blatant sexual references, was especially funny because of the original show’s wholesome nature...
...penetrated by a trespasser who died on our front lawn. He had seemed healthy enough when he went to bed, and then, just like that, he up and died. The man who had been a staple of the Leverett House river view for years died alone—a blatant encroachment of the buffer zone between college and the real world...