Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ever brazen, Saddam Hussein dispatched Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz to the United Nations to demand an end to sanctions. With maximum bluster and minimum facts that left members rolling their eyes, Aziz accused the Security Council of genocide and portrayed Iraq as victim. The council countered with a litany of violated agreements, thwarted weapons inspections, abuses against Kurds and Shi'ite Muslims and, as Aziz was reminded, the continued suffering of the Iraqi people because Saddam is diverting food shipments to his security forces and the military. After two days Aziz left empty-handed...
Little Rock, Arkansas, these days is a sump of brazen supplication. Members of Bill Clinton's transition staff report that a lawyer from Wyoming called to say he should be made a federal judge; a businessman from Arkansas wrote a five-page letter explaining why he should be named ambassador to the Court of St. James's; and people with the remotest connection to the President-elect say they have not paid for a lunch or dinner in weeks. But there is one man who is so close to power that he does not need...
Cost overruns and delayed launches are bad enough. Now NASA is facing a different plague: a horde of rats has invaded the agency's gleaming new headquarters in Washington. The brazen little critters have been polishing off uneaten sandwiches and terrifying customers using nasa's automated teller machine. As usual, the agency's exterminators have responded swiftly with yet another acronym: RAS, which stands for Rodent Abatement System...
...nattering nabobs" and student protesters, he did so with a thuggish menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
...brazen about promoting his business as illegal [that] if we had left him alone," Rauchberg says. "I have no doubt that in every other university community there would be this problem...