Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commenting on the meeting, CCA President Don Berlin said: "In a flagrant betrayal of public trust, these elected servants of the public wrapped up a private package deal which makes the infamous 'family night' of four years ago look like a Sunday-School picnic...
...midnight Radio Belgrade announced to the world that the Nagy party had not reached their homes. Under Secretary Vidic protested angrily to the Kadar government: "If the agreement [to return the Nagy group to their homes ] is not implemented, the Yugoslav government will consider it a flagrant violation, not only of the existing friendly relations between the two countries, but also of the generally recognized norms of international...
...most conspicuous example of this false and American idealism is in Giant's handling of the segregation issue, through the somewhat less flagrant problem of Texan prejudice against Mexican-Americans. The movie does depict the trend in Mexican-Texan relations correctly--only the old settlers do not understand the "messican;" the new generation accepts and even encourages him. But as usual, Hollywood has oversimplified, exaggerating the problem in order to come up with a strikingly optimistic conclusion. No Mexican-American would ever be ejected from any restaurant as in the movie. On the other hand, no son of a Benedict...
...Cairo, meanwhile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged the British and French with "flagrant aggression" as air-raid sirens sounded repeatedly and Allied warplanes dominated the air over Suez with round-the-clock assaults on vital installations. Nasser said that he would fight "to the last drop of my blood" rather than "die in slavery...
...practiced interpreter between East and West, credits the British with opening "the whole wealth of Western inductive science and knowledge of Western political institutions to the wondering gaze and avid hunger of the Indian student." At the same time, the Protestant missionaries attacked Hinduism's most flagrant corruptions-caste system and child marriage, enforced widowhood, suttee (a widow's suicide on the funeral pyre of her husband) and infanticide...