Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cleansing. In protest at the flagrant violation of the ceasefire, U.S. Ambassador Averell Harriman announced that the U.S. would boycott the conference until fighting stopped. The British and French backed him up. But the Communists did not even bother to deny the shooting. Padong is "the Dienbienphu of 1961 for the U.S.," crowed the New China News Agency, predicting that just as France had been forced to negotiate from defeat in 1954, the U.S. would now have to surrender Laos. The Communists' two favorite Laotian princes, ex-Premier Souvanna Phouma and his half brother, Souphanouvong, arrived in Geneva from...
...Klaus Fuchs in 1947 drew little, satisfaction from this promise. Horrified to discover that British intelligence had got onto the Lonsdale ring only by a series of accidents, the London Daily Express wondered "in the months and years before, how much vital information reached the Russians through the flagrant folly and incompetence of naval intelligence?" Mourned the Daily Mail: "The vision of an alert, unsleeping corps of first-class brains keeping watch and ward has taken another blow...
...Four years ago, he allowed the creation of an opposition party, and a number of his supporters in Parliament happily obliged. When last August's elections were too crudely rigged by the government, he ordered them annulled. Last week the Shah wearily suspended two provincial governors for crudely flagrant "deviations from regular electoral procedures...
Puritan New England regarded obesity as a flagrant symbol of intemperance, and thus a sin. Says Keys: "Maybe if the idea got around again that obesity is immoral, the fat man would start to think." Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about-over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were...
...prospect of a fullblown crisis. From Premier Prince Boun Oum came a terse communique: five heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...