Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refugee burden and, to its everlasting discredit, came out with much of its military armor untarnished by combat. With hardly a pause, the Syrians thus took up their prewar belligerence right where they had left off. If anything, the Baathist Party members who rule the country have become more brazen; even Egypt's Nasser cannot match them for extremism. They have not only cut themselves off completely from the West but are increasingly isolating themselves from other Arab nations, and even from their own people...
...Much of the exporting begins by rail. Shipments go to friendly Portuguese Mozambique and its port of Beira. Since the rail lines from Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
Embarrassed as they are by the disorder in Canton, Maoist chiefs in Peking can do little about it. Last week, as usual, they were preoccupied with troubles in their own backyard. Items: > Demonstrators set a Russian car ablaze, then smashed into the Soviet embassy compound in a brazen display that moved the Kremlin to warn that a "hysterical anti-Soviet campaign" can only lead to a total break in diplomatic relations...
...Brazen Charge. That is just the trouble, insists Mihajlov, who charged in court that Yugoslavia is a totalitarian state. When challenged, he said: "In a society in which only one party exists, where a single man is head of state and at the same time head of the army and the party, then look in the encyclopaedia and you will find that that is totalitarianism." In fact, he added brazenly, the one-party monopoly of government, which is nowhere mentioned in the Yugoslav constitution, is far more illegal than his own writings. "My ideas are socialist and democratic," he said...
...enormous. She was the first of the great singing actresses, a complete performer capable of re-creating opera heroines in her own poignant, personal image. She used her voice as a painter uses a brush, coloring each role with its own distinct intonation. Her Thaïs was brazen and worldly, her Melisande pale and groping, her Louise earthy and free-loving...