Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfortunately been balked at almost every turn by Russia. About our activities in Greece, Elliott declared that we would be "untrue to our tradition" if we held back. He spared no pains to remind his audience of Soviet machinations in Eastern Europe, which he felt were "violations as flagrant as any in history" of agreements between nations...
...story: Mrs. Cheveley (Paulette Goddard), a high-flying blackmailer, puts the bite on the most model husband and statesman in turn-of-the-century England. Unless he publicly endorses a flagrant speculation fraud, she will expose the one piece of youthful crookedness upon which his fortune and his career are founded. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams) is all the more gruesomely trapped because he deeply loves his wife (Diana Wynyard), a noble but somewhat priggish woman who, he is sure, would cease to love him if he should fail to match her idealization of him. His close friend Lord Goring...
...schools had grown to such an extent that they were tacitly accepted by both University Hall and the undergraduates. The Faculty and Administration tolerated and even abetted them by quickly ignoring their existence except when there was a flagrant violation of the common law copyright which the University holds on lecture material...
...site. EURJ In Alaska, after a look at Fairbanks' ili-famed row of brothels known as "the line," Dr. W. T. Harrison, a district director of the U.S. Public Health Service, said: "I did not think there was any place under the American flag where prostitution is as flagrant...
Wanton Waste. The politics-minded committee called the wartime work a "wanton waste of the taxpayers' money." It cited "flagrant" overpayments to contractors, and a wasteful detour in Nicaragua so that the highway might pass property owned by Dictator Anastasio Somoza. It condemned the poor coordination between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Public Roads Administration. In some places in Guatemala, a junketing subcommittee had found, the road was so rough that pigs wore shoes to protect their trotters...