Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fellow men stemmed the tabloid flow of the news. In New York City, Hulan Jack, borough president of Manhattan, suspended himself from office after his indictment for criminal conspiracy to obstruct justice. Eight Chicago policemen, technically guardians of the law and justice, were arrested as the leaders of a brazen, multithousand-dollar burglary ring. In the case of two airline crashes in which 76 hapless passengers lost their lives, fingers of suspicion pointed to Julian Frank, a heavily insured lawyer who died in one crash, and to Robert Spears, a convicted forger who may have died in the other...
Such nice legalities did not bother ex-President Harry Truman. "This act of provocation is intended missile invasion of the Pacific," said he, in Phoenix, Ariz. "This action is as highhanded as it is brazen." Said Montana's Democratic Senator Mike Mansfield: "I am requesting the State Department to make a strong protest immediately, and if that is not successful, to seek a special session of the U.N." Mansfield added that if the Russians did not bow to the protest. President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend the mid-May summit meeting in Paris with Russia...