Word: brazenness
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After twenty years of sinister maneuvering, the liquor industry is preparing to relaunch the brazen tactics it employed in the destruction of Prohibition...
...Brazen Doors. Most Harley houses are owned by the estate of Lord Howard de Walden, whose agents are careful to lease them only to physicians of high repute. Other landlords have been less scrupulous. A dozen buildings have been carved into warrens of one-room offices." and these are shared by so many doctors that they have become little more than mail drops for fee-hungry physicians who know the value of a Harley Street address. A single doorway may be almost solidly covered with as many as 40 brass name plates. Some names stand for reputable young consultants...
...celebrated shrine at Lourdes is the No. 1 pilgrimage center in Christendom, but the town of Lourdes exploits the shrine's fame with a brazen tastelessness that is alarming French churchmen. Chief offenders are the dealers in pious objects. In Lourdes, a Pyrenees town of only 16,000 inhabitants but more than 600 hotels, some 580 of the total 710 businesses deal solely in these gimmicky souvenirs of St. Bernadette Soubirous. Samples: neckties that glow at night with Bernadette's image, washable plastic Virgins in every size, corkscrews in the shape of Bernadette adoring the Virgin, fountain pens...
Khrushchev's line, backed by the U.S.S.R.'s scientific triumph with Sputniks I and II, is a bold and daring line indeed, and the spearhead of what may well be modern diplomacy's most brazen propaganda gambit. For if the Communists, whose missilery is a threat of the near future, should succeed by big talk in persuading U.S. allies, and the U.S. itself, that the day of the bomber is over, they could win for Communism a cold-war victory over the most powerful armed force ever assembled-an armed force that in the here...
...mark of Hoffa's brazen determination to get what he wants any way he can was his performance in the early days of the Senate Labor Rackets investigation. New York Lawyer John Cye Cheasty swore that Hoffa hired him to spy on the committee's investigative work. When Hoffa was arrested and tried on bribery and conspiracy charges before a jury of eight Negroes and four whites, Hoffa's good "friend," ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, made a conspicuous show of himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy...