Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia there are no "unessential industries," no "labor difficulties," the 66-hour week is compulsory. Tardy employees are reprimanded, chronically late workers have their wages and rations cut, flagrant offenders are sent to the bread lines...
Truman rebuttal: "This conclusion is wishful thinking . . . tendency to minimize. [Knudsen's] report assumes an unnecessarily defensive attitude. [Its] inspection was made after the most flagrant derelictions had been called to the attention of the Wright Aeronautical Corp...
...disgust at the maldistribution of food, at flagrant profiteering and the inability of Party functionaries to meet recurring war crises, a strong underground has developed. Despite a raid on a Milan printshop last month, which jailed five negotiators, the underground groups-Socialist, Liberals and Communists-last week have established a joint "Committee for Peace and Freedom" (TIME, May 3) and United Front organizations in at least six northern Italian cities. They claim the organization of a wave of strikes which began in March and at one point called out from 40,000 to 50,000 men. Through widespread circulation...
...quite talkative. His eyes and pupils were dilated. He admitted having been drinking." Both papers clamored for justice; Beverly Hills' Police Chief C. H. Anderson was quoted: "We are determined to protect the streets of this community against intoxicated and reckless drivers. The Mankiewicz case seems like a flagrant one, and we are determined that it shall be justly handled...
...first half, amid lost balls galore, amid more traveling than has been seen anywhere since the Okies settled in California, the Elis moved to a 24 to 23 lead. Fleet Eli guard Gil Gibbon, one of the more flagrant offenders of the ban on walking, slipped through an amazingly porous Crimson man-to-man defense for twelve points in the first ten minutes...