Word: brazening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hour ordeal that confronted Spain's struggling young democratic regime with its most serious challenge since the death in 1975 of Dictator Francisco Franco. Never in postwar memory had the democratically elected parliament of any Western nation been subjected to such an outrage. To many Spaniards the brazen act was all too reminiscent of Franco's own assault on a fragile Spanish republic in 1936; that coup had triggered a bloody three-year civil war and ushered in 40 years of dictatorship. Would his diehard followers now bathe the Cortes in bloodshed and perhaps again bury Spanish democracy...
...Valere. By this time, everyone else in the household has become sick from Tartuffe's hypocritical moralizing and pretended disapproval of even the innocent pleasures of dancing and receiving company. They plan to unmask Tartuffe's real nature to Orgon and arrange for him to view secretly Tartuffe's brazen advances on Elmire, Orgon's wife. Orgon, at last convinced, drives Tartuffe from the house (but not without several last-minute complications...
Soviet strategy has been, and will probably continue to be, brazen and brutal. But it has not been, and probably will not be, reckless. In picking their targets, the Kremlin leaders chose nations that the U.S. had somehow denied as outside its area of national interest. Congress did so explicitly in the case of Angola in 1975; the Carter Administration did much the same with Ethiopia; poor Afghanistan was effectively conceded to eventual Soviet domination as far back as the '50s, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles left it sandwiched between the U.S.S.R. and the now defunct Central...
...bribery in Israel. Another was Shafik Assad, a Druze member from Galilee. The independents were courted with a wide range of inducements: for Assad, a new community center for his native village; for others, promises of deputy ministershlps. Even among Begin's own aides, the reaction to the brazen corridor bargaining verged on outrage. "It's never happened before that people are so open about being for sale politically," said one aide. Added another: "It's a joke. What have they gained, another week...
Last week's raid came after three local colleges, upset by the ghostwriters' brazen sales tactics, complained to officials. Says James A. Malone, dean of students at John Jay College of Criminal Justice: "I have personally chased off peddlers hawking handbills just outside the school. We even have a person assigned just to remove these advertisements from campus bulletin boards...