Word: brazening
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...Marchand) have decided to starve themselves into Hell in order to keep Miss Farrand's late husband company. A handsome young corporal drops in, falls in love with Miss Farrand, and distracts both ladies back to a more normal interest in life. Miss Marchand is particularly engaging as the brazen ladies' maid whose carthy comments create an amusing foil to the high-flown sentiments of the two lovers...
...with, apparently, no authority to inspect anything but the 2½-mile buffer zone between the armies. A deadlock immediately ensued. Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy rejected the Red scheme as toothless. Lieut. General Nam II, the deadpan North Korean commander, rejected the U.N. plan as a "brazen interference" with the internal affairs of North Korea...
...would pay $120 a month to certain disabled veterans whose disabilities are in no way connected with military service. This bill, which may some day cost the taxpayer $400 million a year, was contrived by the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, of which Mississippi's John Rankin, a brazen spoilsman, is chairman...
When they were unable to get the newspapers to publish either their statement or Premier Chou's honeyed words, the Catholics concluded that the whole tea party had been a brazen attempt to fool them into giving a fuzzy declaration that could be twisted to look like a breakaway from Rome. Meanwhile, as the Reds turned on the heat, signatures began sprouting all over China on petitions for an "Independent Catholic Church." Archbishop Anthony Riberi, the apostolic internuncio to China, decided that the time had come to take off the gloves...
...Brazen Hussy. Chuckled Herbert's friend Winston Churchill later: "Call that a maiden speech? It was a brazen hussy of a speech. Never did such a painted lady of a speech parade itself before a modest Parliament...