Word: brazened
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Other long-festering dangers kept the world in turmoil. Terrorist murders and kidnapings became more brazen: the hijackings of TWA Flight 847 in June, an EgyptAir jetliner in November and the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in October were only the most spectacular incidents. Though governments did finally begin to fight back, their efforts illustrated the complexities and perils of antiterrorist action: the U.S. capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers strained relations with Egypt and Italy, while 60 passengers on the EgyptAir jet were dead after Egyptian commandos stormed the grounded plane in Malta. But in Argentina the elected civilian...
...kind of outrage that a woman scientist would walk out of that meeting pretending to be getting sick and giving it out to the press, and a brazen rejection of reason and discussion and scientific inquiry,” says Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...
...gambling nearly everything he was making from WTBS, Turner launched the 24-hour Cable News Network, a brazen challenge to the three major TV-news organizations. During the first few years, CNN lost about $50 million annually and seemed unlikely to survive. Turner persevered, though, and today CNN is nearly in the black. He has aimed to join forces with CBS since 1981, when he approached the network about taking over Turner Broadcasting. Rejected then and several times since, Turner finally decided to try to take over...
Without Madea’s brazen comic relief, the film’s darker themes and overt religiosity would be intolerable. Perry strives not for emotional consistency but for a harmonious blend of disparate emotions. Diary’s tone is a compromise between the tragic and the ridiculous...
...Lindgren’s e-mail contained only “lists of anti-Bellesiles academics who could be called for quotes, along with their contact information, and suggestions about how the story [on Arming America] should be written.” But Wiener’s brazen decision to flout journalistic standards is unseemly—if not unethical...