Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Traveling Flagrant...
...Washington's first-terming Mon C. Wallgren, New York's busy James M. Mead. Also on the committee went cagey old Tom Connally of Texas, to see that the juniors kept their heads. For its first assignment, the Committee chose a modest chore: delving into the more flagrant charges of graft in camp and war-plant construction, plugging some of the more open sewers down which Government money drained...
These steps corrected some of the most flagrant conditions in North Africa and showed a desire to placate democratic opinion abroad. If the improvement continued and turned out to be more than skin-deep, Americans might yet be able to look upon their North African protégé without embarrassment...
...Nazi planes and U-boats were sinking ships bringing aid to Russia-or if the Allies landed in northern Norway, Germany might be able to defend her northern outposts only if Sweden allowed the shipment of reinforcements and supplies across Swedish territory. If Stockholm agreed, it would be a flagrant violation of her neutrality. If she refused, she could expect a German attack...
...GUERRILLAS, FAMOUS CIVIL WAR BAND OF RAIDERS, WILL FEEL SLIGHTED. I AM SURPRISED AT YOUR HISTORIAN'S ERROR ESPECIALLY IN A FOOTNOTE AS APPEARS IN THE 1 943 JAN. 11 ISSUE WHICH REFERS TO CANTRELL'S GUERRILLAS. CAN IT BE THAT TIME PRINTED SUCH A FLAGRANT ERROR...