Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
...would pay $120 a month to certain disabled veterans whose disabilities are in no way connected with military service. This bill, which may some day cost the taxpayer $400 million a year, was contrived by the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, of which Mississippi's John Rankin, a brazen spoilsman, is chairman...
When they were unable to get the newspapers to publish either their statement or Premier Chou's honeyed words, the Catholics concluded that the whole tea party had been a brazen attempt to fool them into giving a fuzzy declaration that could be twisted to look like a breakaway from Rome. Meanwhile, as the Reds turned on the heat, signatures began sprouting all over China on petitions for an "Independent Catholic Church." Archbishop Anthony Riberi, the apostolic internuncio to China, decided that the time had come to take off the gloves...
...Brazen Hussy. Chuckled Herbert's friend Winston Churchill later: "Call that a maiden speech? It was a brazen hussy of a speech. Never did such a painted lady of a speech parade itself before a modest Parliament...
...mind particularly the recent Toronto speech by External Affairs Minister Pearson (TIME, April 23) in which Pearson was critical of U.S. leadership. Said Browne: "It was rather surprising that [Pearson] should speak as he recently did in Toronto . . . We are copying the bad manners of the Russians [in] their brazen . . . and even insulting tactics...