Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of this, I cannot see how a nonresident politician of California or New York can just announce that he will run for high office in another state and have the temerity to think that the public will stand still for this blatant effrontery...
...Most blatant of the district's toughs was balding, broad-shouldered Paulie Muller, 38, head of the "Black Gang" and "King of Sankt Pauli." Flanked by his muscle man, a hulking waiter known as "Hans the Swine," and tailed by such hangers-on as "Boxer Fred," "Emil the Bull" and "Gambler Heini," Muller cut a wide swath along the Raper, intimidating bar owners and roughing up anyone who challenged him. But last October Paulie Muller met his nemesis in the form of a camel's-hair coat...
...Murray sees it, the most blatant constitutional violation is church-owned property that is not used for religious purposes. Many state laws are so broad that churches-and fraternal organizations-may buy such property with leaseback arrangements under which they rent it to the former owners; income from the rents and leases is taxfree. The Roman Catholic Knights of Columbus do not pay income taxes on their rental revenue, which comes from such sources as the land on which Yankee Stadium stands, a Detroit steel warehouse and a Connecticut steel mill. In New Orleans, Jesuit-run Loyola University pays...
Once arrived, the reader is not likely to be surfeited. Even Sir William confesses that the Times is guilty of "blatant omissions," as when, a few years ago, it reported the resignation of the Spanish Ambassador to Britain without mentioning the adultery case that caused...
Back row interdigitators may be delighted with the dimness, but legible notes and unimpaired eyesight are hard enough to maintain without added environmental handicaps. Protesters have been making plenty of noise about this matter of light, yet Dean Trottenberg has responded with blatant indifference. His legalistic quibbling over the applicability of the Massachusetts lighting law is irrelevant. The University should be obliged by responsible concern, if not by law, to provide adequate lumination. And it doesn't take a light meter to see that it has failed...