Word: blatants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vellucci and Councilor Walter J. Sullivan first dredged up the old issue of expanding the two departments and forced it through, despite the cautioning of Councilor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo. Warning against hasty treatment of an important subject for purposes of blatant electioneering, DeGuglielmo declared, "I think on a matter as serious as this we ought to have the advice of the police and fire chiefs. After I hear them, I shall be happy to vote...
...further revelation is dangled like a carrot for the reader who reads on and on until he feels like "The Soldier Who Saw Everything Twice" (the ironic title of one chapter). Heller fights a nip-and-tuck battle with the twin temptations of redundance and abundance, succumbs shamelessly to blatant gag writing until much of his dialogue resembles an old Smith & Dale vaudeville sketch ("Why can't you marry me?" "Because you're crazy." "Why am I crazy?" "Because you want to marry me"). But an overdose of comic non sequitur and an almost experimental formlessness...
...pass from center on a fourth-down punt play in the second quarter--which set up Columbia's second and fourth touchdowns. Yovicsin was impatient and visibly irked over these plays; he couldn't pass them off as "that's the breaks," for they were identical to the two blatant errors in the Lehigh game which also led to touchdowns...
World Conscience? Despite Khrushchev's blatant disregard for their opinions, next day the delegates earnestly began to discuss how to make their opinions felt in world politics. In his keynote speech, Tito grumbled, "Small and medium-sized countries are considered as a kind of reserve and voting machine in international forums. Nonaligned countries can no longer reconcile themselves to that role. They have a right to participate in the solving of problems...
...Minneapolitans among 18,500 listeners at the Minnesota State Fair Grounds. Unnoticed went some decidedly unparadisiacal facts: in the past month, their city was forced to boost taxes to fight a 30% increase in crime, heard itself berated by a convention of building managers for the most "open and blatant" prostitution they had seen...