Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian principles of right and wrong." An effigy bearing the names of Sadler and Chapman dangled on the campus; another hung from the rotunda of the Capitol. Eighty student members of the Young Republicans and Young Democrats adopted a resolution condemning the university's action as a "flagrant" violation of the "principle of an equal chance for everyone...
...Till kidnapping case and murder of two NAACP leaders in Mississippi were flagrant examples of the absence of "equal protection of the laws" for the Negro citizen. In many less sensational cases between Negro and white, Southern courts have consistently meted prejudicial "justice." Unable to act because the cases themselves concern only violations of state laws, the Department has had to remain passive despite popular protest throughout the rest of the country. The present measure would give a legal implement for enforcing the intent of the Constitution, providing a special division of the Justice Department to investigate civil rights complaints...
Ovid was banished from Rome for the last nine years of his life, possibly for some act so flagrant that he himself thought it too scandalous to confide to posterity. It can be said of Ovid, as Hilaire Belloc once hoped for himself: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." Rarely have they read more delightfully than in Humphries' jaunty recreation of the urbane amorist's pagan high spirits...
...patience with this "flagrant" circumvention of the rules snapped, and Trans American was ordered out of business. The company went to court and in December 1956 was refused a rehearing by the Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, with an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Trans American got ready to quit; it leased five DC-6Bs to Eastern Air Lines for $12.8 million for five years, plus the rights to two more planes now on order...
...rainboots and a bourbon on a five-minute, five-a-week local show called Punch Line last week, NBC's Manhattan station WRCA clamped down, announced that it would dock Baylos' $1,000 salary by $675-the price of three ten-second advertising spots. "It was a flagrant violation of policy," explained NBC. "We hope to teach him a lesson." Cried Baylos: "It was only a joke. Why do they pick on a broke little guy like me and never bother the big boys...