Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approximate equivalent of a combined Ku Klux Klan and Tammany Hall. Its name: Theta Nu Epsilon. No innocent social fraternity. T.N.E. is an outlaw* interfraternity society whose anonymous and generally hard-drinking members often work in secret to control student governments, campus newspapers, fraternity memberships and prom lists, in flagrant defiance of faculty edicts...
...another flagrant case, the command ing officer of a troop carrier squadron was in on a deal that netted $2,000 a trip, amounting in all to $50,000. His planes often landed at out-of-the-way fields under pretense of motor trouble, so that smugglers could unload under cover of darkness. In another case, a U.S. soldier and four Chinese were arrested in Kunming with $7,000 worth of sulfanilamide...
...Good Friday raid on Coventry. At home and abroad he was 13 years on the staff of the New York Times, and perhaps you read his book on Gang Rule in New York, which the Times called "an eye-popping Only Yesterday of crime and politics in a flagrant...
...bank issued a sharp, 64-word statement (which Washer later quoted in his complaint): "We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who had admittedly falsified his expense account . . . been guilty of flagrant insubordination, who called inhabitants of the community in which he was working 'yokels' and 'country bumpkins' and labeled the town 'Siberia.' " The bank fought up to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost (thereby establishing the right of bank employes to organize under the Wagner Act), finally reinstated Washer with $5,503 in back pay. Washer then sued the bank...
G.I.s were known to be selling Army gasoline in the French black market (TIME, Oct. 2). But even before MPs cracked down, the quantities were not enough to fuel more than a small share of the flagrant boom in pleasure driving. As more & more civilian cars appeared around Paris nightclubs, the scandal-perceptive French began to smell something...