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...taught merely to guess at words, develops no way to figure out new words he has not already memorized. U.S. educators-closed ranks against Flesch, and when they were not denouncing the "Devil in the Flesch," they were damning the "Flesch peddlers." Nevertheless, though Johnny was marred by flagrant exaggerations, it stayed on the bestseller list for 39 weeks, and thousands of parents-and teachers-found in Flesch the angrily dramatic spokesman they had been waiting...
...threw a massive book at every single member of the Managers' Guild. In round and rolling phrases that are seldom heard over coffee and bagels on Jacobs' Beach, he accused the guild of engaging in "vague and shadowy" activities, of actions that were at once "malevolent, monopolistic, flagrant, shocking, vicious, arbitrary and illegal, absolute and autocratic, underhanded and dishonest." Guild members, said Helfand, had consorted with "the sinister and shadowy figure of the notorious Frankie Carbo,"and, what was worse, had displayed"an incredible and amazing ignorance" of their own organization. For all this and a few assorted...
Randolph's one-man campaign is a flagrant breach in the conspiracy of courtesy that by long tradition keeps Fleet Street mum about its own foibles. "It is a curious thing," he has written, "that wealthy men who own papers set themselves up to criticize every kind of institution, but they themselves are the one institution which is totally immune from criticism . . . Dog don't eat dog. That is one of the reasons why some of the London press...
Morton said that flagrant violations of parking laws have caused "intolerable" conditions on city streets, and that towing offenders' cars away was the only practical solution. Under his proposed regulations, police and private garage trucks would do the towing...
Cook called the Supreme Court's segregation decision "A flagrant example of usurpation of power," and served notice that "we Georgians intend to circumvent...