Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant, Mildred McAfee Horton of Wellesley, and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T. were among those denouncing the "flagrant flouting of the rights of citizens...
...season was released on the Indoor Athletic Building court. The Varsity not only displayed its best form of the season, but also demoralized a competent, well-drilled Columbia team, whose only recourse in the last six minutes of play was to abandon its defense almost completely and resort to flagrant personal fouls to prevent the Crimson from scoring...
...Tories strained to take it out on Socialism. In the House of Commons Winston Churchill flashed some of his old form and fire: "The brute fact is that Socialism means mismanagement ... incompetence. . . . Let us hope the nation will realize from this flagrant example the downward stairway upon which they are now thrust and down which they have descended only the first few steps...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...flagrant cases of Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin in propagating marital irresponsibility among the youth of this country are not sterilized by the example of the few nice people in Hollywood," Carle C. Zimmerman, assistant professor of Sociology, yesterday retorted to movie colony protests which had arisen because of a similar statement he had made recently...