Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Boris Morros was also on the move. He was back in his beloved show business as a man no longer suspect. Friends who once crossed Hollywood-and-Vine to avoid the man they despised as a flagrant fellow traveler were proud to talk to him again. Boris, who estimates he lost $2,000,000 in possible earnings by becoming a counterspy, was busy with plans for the future. He had already charmed 18 Nobel Prizewinners into recounting their life stories to him, hoped to turn the stories into a series of television films...
...milled happily about the ivy-grown Allegheny Mountain resort near Uniontown, Pa. Some of them went in for a moonlight dip from the concrete bathing pavilion, and it was 4 a.m. before things quieted down; the management even set up a few drinks on the house all around-a flagrant violation of Pennsylvania liquor laws. But the 34-year-old hotel would not be needing its liquor license any more. It had been sold -lake, bars and all-to an obscure religious sect called the Society of Brothers...
...itself cunning. The "plotters," said Khrushchev, had timed their attack on the Central Committee to coincide with the 250th anniversary (June 23) of Leningrad,* to prevent Presidium members from taking part in the celebrations in that city. Reason: the anti-party group was "particularly gravely guilty of the most flagrant errors and shortcomings which took place in the past" in Leningrad...
...Arkansas Senator branded the pair's performance a "flagrant abuse" of the Fifth Amendment, directed his staff to prepare contempt proceedings, expressed the hope that the test case might be carried, if necessary, to the highest court in the land. He did not believe, McClellan said, that a witness "is entitled to invoke the Fifth Amendment unless he can also state under oath, without perjuring himself, that he honestly believes that if he answered the question truthfully the truthful answer might tend to incriminate him." South Dakota's Karl Mundt, for the Republicans, was quick to join McClellan...
...flagrant injustice of William Palmer's trial would have been enough to make almost anyone sympathize. Of the three judges, two, including the Lord Chief Justice who presided, were set against Palmer from the start, and Mr. Baron Alderson--who was a personal enemy of Palmer's barrister--interfered in the trial with sarcastic comments on the evidence and counsel's efforts. The Lord Chief Justice showed open prejudice against the defending counsel, and even misdirected the jury...