Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easily outstanding as the "newspaper . . . most flagrant in angling or weighting the news to suit its own editorial opinions": Colonel Robert R. McCormick's Roosevelt-hating Chicago Tribune...
...clean-swept streets, its impressive public buildings. But these observers did not see, or else ignored, the real Guatemala behind this façade. Last week, after a stay in Dictator Ubico's realm, a TIME correspondent reported in detail on one of the world's most flagrant tyrannies...
...close confinement if they failed and gave up when challenged. Under the Geneva Convention of 1929, the Germans were obligated to notify the British immediately and fully of any escapes or deaths among the prisoners. This obligation had not been honored. Britons wondered whether the secrecy hid other, more flagrant misdeeds...
Dean Hanford said: "Although in some instances it is hard to draw the line, when a student gives money for a theme, it is clearly a case of flagrant dishonesty. I do not want to make threats, and most students do not use these services; but if a student is found to give money for themes or term papers, the University will treat it as an extremely serious offense...
...rapidly as possible about war developments, had often promised that it would not happen again. The U.S. press went after Elmer Davis. Red-faced with shame and anger, he uprose, turned a bitter blast on his opposite number, British Minister of Information Brendan Bracken. Barked mild-mannered Mr. Davis: ". . . flagrant and possibly dangerous breach.... I hope . . . you will take steps to make sure that British censorship . . . keeps Reuters in line." Before a critical House of Commons Brendan Bracken indirectly replied that he would do "all I can," adding, "We have no responsibility for Lisbon nor for Reuters...