Word: brazenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first week's evidence was any sample, he didn't have much to go on. Riffling through a pack of file-index cards, Hickenlooper could produce only two examples: that excessive turnover among AEC employees showed "a startling lack of continuity"; that Lilienthal had shown "brazen effrontery" by granting emergency security clearances to 3,280 AEC employees, pending a full FBI check...
...When last I painted him he still had:-at least for me-a certain amount of uncouthness of the flesh about him, of the brazen and sardonic as well as the elegant ironic. This time I was painting a man who had passed through a white fire, who is specifically anointed...
Heart of Stein. Under all this brazen willfulness lay a warmheartedness that endeared Gertrude and Alice to thousands. Soldiers and newsmen of the liberating U.S. Seventh Army found themselves rapturously hugged & kissed by Lovey, stuffed with the excellent cookery of Pussy. And, by the time Brewsie and Willie appeared in 1946 (Gertrude Stein died with a copy of it clutched in each hand), the name of Stein had ceased to be merely an object of intellectual bickering and changed into a focus of highly popular emotion. Money flowed in from publishers, visitors flowed in from everywhere...
...Brazen Scheme." This first shot fired, Democratic politicians manned the ramparts all over Dixie. South Carolina's Senator Burnet R. Maybank said that his state would follow Virginia's lead. His colleague, Senator Olin Johnston, proposed that the Democrats draft Secretary of State George Marshall. Arkansas' Senator John McClellan came out for Harry Byrd. Even at the price of defeat, Georgia's Senator Walter George looked forward to a party shakeup after the election, with Southerners taking a stronger grip...
Only one Southern stalwart came forward to sound a sober warning to the secessionists. He was no warm friend of Harry Truman's. But Florida's Senator Claude Pepper thought Virginia's ballot plan a "brazen scheme," the effect of which would be to give the electoral voting power "to a little group of party bosses...