Word: brazenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...statement, "We can keep people in the Army about as cheaply as we can create an agency for them when they are out." This was "fantastic," said Candidate Roosevelt; he had read it with "amazement." The War Department had announced a plan for speedy demobilization. "This callous and brazen falsehood was, of course, a very simple thing . . . an effort to stimulate fear among American mothers, wives and sweethearts...
Last March, just before his $15,000-a-year contract came up for vote before the Board of Education, the Chicago Citizens Schools Committee shrilled: "It is doubtful whether in the whole history of America so brazen an attempt was ever made by a superintendent of schools to corner the market for his own books in the schools under his direction." Johnson promptly assured his employers that he received not one penny from sales of his books to Chicago. His annual royalties, as high as $14,000, he announced, accrue to him from use of his books by cities...
...believe that it is demonstrable that every one of these elements is equally prevalent in the Democratic Party. But there is a difference: in the Democratic Party they are entrenched, they are geographically integrated and supported by an ancient prejudice, and by corrupt and brazen political machines. While in the Republican Party they are scattered and unsupported by effective political organizations...
...virulent hatred of what she termed the "communistic" fantasies of "desperate radicals"-by which she meant Home Rule for Ireland, Reform of the House of Lords and her Liberal arch-antagonist and recurrent Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone. Gladstone was at once a passionate monarchist, reformer, and pillar of brazen endurance. Monarch and monarchist battled for 20 years. Much of the time the widowed Queen was unpopular with her subjects because she insisted on secluding herself in her country palaces...
This spectacle went on all week at the Paramount. Many hepcats sat through most of the seven shows a day, chewing chocolate bars and put-up lunches. Some had passed up $8 in defense plants, $5 in grocery stores, etc., to hear the brazen coloratura of James's trumpet. Puzzled adults who asked what he had never got a clearer answer than: "It does something to your blood." Said the harassed Paramount switchboard operator: "Don't mention the name James...