Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Takers. New Jersey's crinkly-haired Representative Fred Hartley, co-author of the Act, was its only vocal defender during the week. He lambasted labor's "brazen effrontery" and called for a congressional investigation of "any and all efforts to by-pass the law, whether by unions working alone or in conspiracy with employers." Employers perked up their ears and wondered what sort of merry-go-round they were on now. Many, for the sake of labor peace, had taken their contract cue from Co-Author Bob Taft. He had found "no illegality" in the coal operators...
...continue speaking in Boston until, aided by the approaching depression, he can build himself a following of 3500 or 35,000. Smith had to be taught that fascists are unwelcome in Boston, and equally important, the people of Boston had to learn that they are not powerless against the brazen emergence of all the gutter -fascists who dared not show their faces during...
...London, on a grey day that set the mood for gloom, there was brazen disregard of the blackout in many stores and homes. The great grey pile of Buckingham Palace showed a few lights. In about half of the grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West...
Jason, a relative of Phryxus, decided to get the fleece back. He outfitted a ship, the Argo, and manned it with big-muscled demigods, including Hercules. After some thrilling adventures with shipwrecks, sorcery, brazen bulls and aggressively amorous women, the Argonauts snatched the fleece and brought it home to Thessaly...
Itemized Bill. In Kansas City, Mo., a woman sued for divorce, complained that her husband was "disagreeable, irritable, morbid, cool, bitter, jealous, heckling, picayunish, loathsome, insulting, brazen, miserly, gluttonish, temperamental, selfish, contemptuous, inattentive, uncivil and inconsiderate...