Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convention (as James Bryce knew even in 1893) is a highly intricate and sensitive political assembly in which the pressures, deals and loyalties of months and years burst to light. It has always been far more serious than the paper hats and the noisemakers suggest, and, despite the most brazen political backroom coups, eventually subject to the will of the citizen. The presence of TV's eye made it more so. "Jim," the eye seemed to be saying to Mr. Delegate, "Jim, they're watching...
...Zweifel's arrival with case and comment reached Houston, there was an immediate reaction from H. J. ("Jack") Porter, head of the Eisenhower delegation from Texas. Said he: "The Taft forces couldn't get enough documentation in the hold of the Queen Mary to justify their brazen steal of delegates in Texas...
...years the British Broadcasting Corp. has led a prim, completely non-commercial existence. Last week BBC learned that, for the first time, it might have a brazen, home-grown commercial rival. The scandalous revelation was made in the House of Commons, where the Tory majority submitted a white paper that will 1) let BBC continue its simon-pure monopoly on radio, but 2) let some commercial TV stations be built by private enterprise to compete with BBC's four-station TV network...
...brazen effrontery, the medicalatrocity charge was the high point so far of the Reds' propaganda campaign. Such an accusation by them would have been unthinkable in the first weeks of the truce talks last summer, when the U.N. held the whip hand and once broke off the talks for several days over a mere matter of Communist soldiers strolling in Kaesong. Since then, the U.N.'s military pressure has slackened, and its anxiety for a truce has been openly publicized. Now, apparently, the Reds believe that anything goes-the U.N. will keep on coming to the truce table...
...very much ashamed for such a gangsterlike extortion by my former country, and now these two letters make me act. I am sure the only proper thing for anybody who is a Hungarian, or ever has been one, is to find the money to cover the amount of this brazen blackmail, and to refund it to the U.S. Government. There is plenty of money in Hungarian and ex-Hungarian hands in New York, Cleveland and Pittsburgh, and I fervently hope that this letter will be read by a few public-minded people, who will take up the cause...