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Governor Marvin Griffin of Georgia last night charged that the Supreme Court's segregation decision represents a "palpable and flagrant" usurpation of states' rights and an attempt "to transmute socialistic theory into...
...meeting of the I.B.T. general executive board in Honolulu's Princess Kaiulani Hotel, Beck and the board had shelved Hoffa's pet project: a loan of $400,000 to the International Longshoremen's Association, which was expelled from the A.F.L. more than two years ago for flagrant corruption and racketeering. Beck also asked and got from the board virtually unlimited authority to clean out corruption in the I.B.T. itself...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
Hoffa's proposed alliance with the debt-ridden I.L.A. outraged A.F.L.-C.I.O. brass, who recognized it for what it was: a deadly threat to the three-year-old drive to clean up the New York waterfront. In 1953 the A.F.L. expelled the I.L.A. for flagrant and persistent corruption, and it was the teamsters' union that sparked the International Brotherhood of Longshoremen, a new, "clean" pier union. Now, if Hoffa succeeded in switching teamster support back to the gang-bossed I.L.A., the I.B.L. was almost certainly doomed to extinction. Determined to prevent this, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany promptly...
...regimen-and there is little doubt that he relishes his work. His geniality has not rubbed off under the stress. His singing and his original songs (sample title: The Squaws on the Yukon Are Good Enough for Me) are famous in Washington. Office staffers have learned to ignore his flagrant practical jokes-like the swollen and bloody fake finger he sometimes wears. He has to fight his weight (and at 225 Ibs., the weight is winning). To the casual observer he seems to be a bald and bouncy gladhander, as carefree as a prankster at an American Legion convention...