Word: brazen
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Indeed, within hours after Kirkpatrick had played the tape at the U.N. the Soviets switched their line from "Who, me?" innocence to brazen defiance. Yes, said a statement by the official news agency TASS, the Soviets had "stopped" the flight. The reason, it said, was that although the plane was a civilian jet, it was on a spying mission for the U.S. That was a claim just about nobody outside the Communist world believed...
Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...
...published to a chorus of raves, scrupulously documents Julius Rosenberg's involvement with a Soviet spy ring; Ethel was probably a knowledgeable but passive member of the cabal. Since the authors' preliminary findings were published in 1979, Daniel's angry grimace looks like a rictus of brazen naivete...
...That brazen daylight attack on Israeli forces last week underscored the urgency behind Prime Minister Menachem Begin's pledge to the Knesset, delivered three days later, "to bring our sons home from Lebanon." It also drove home a harder truth to the Israeli public: one year after the Israeli invasion that was launched with the intention of transforming Lebanon into a friendly neighbor whose soil would never again be used as a base for attacks against Israel, Israeli forces in Lebanon have become bogged down in an increasingly violent war of nerves. Three days after the Chouf ambush...
...says the actor, pointing, for example, to his most recent role as Helen Highwater, the brash hooker of this year's Pudding show, "Of Mines and Men." He explains how he developed the Highwater character: "I decided that my girlfriend's roommate best suited Helen. She's a pretty brazen, brash, real tough mama--if you'll excuse my French. I clued her in later, but she would catch me staring at her when I was visiting and she'd say, 'What are you doing?' when actually, I was trying to develop Helen through...