Word: flagrante
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus British Critic Cyril Connolly once described two flagrant and flamboyant British traitors: Guy Francis de Money Burgess, 44, and Donald Duart Maclean, 42. Last week the British government, prodded by the revelations of Vladimir Petrov, the Russian MVD boss who defected in Australia, told a bit more about the British spies who escaped in 1951 and are now apparently alive somewhere behind the Iron Curtain. The 3,500-word white paper was not the whole story, but with the facts contributed by Petrov, it made possible for the first time a cohesive account of The Case of the Missing...
...promised Nehru solemnly that he would never dream of such a dreadful thing, proceeded forthwith to violate a frontier. The Communist Pathet Lao regime, which had grabbed some 13,000 sq. mi. of northern Laos in flagrant violation of the Geneva cease-fire agreements, began as a Viet Minh appendage. In the past year Ho's agents have built it up into a tightly disciplined Communist state, complete with full-dress government ministries, a capital at Samneua, brainwashing squads and a conscripted army of 10,000 men trained, supplied, and controlled by 1.500 or more regular Viet Minh troops...
After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
...penal codes in the United States are probably the most flagrant infringements of personal liberties that exist, and it is fine to see that we have thinking jurists who recommend that our churches, schools and parental influences should guide our morals...
...University parking fines so that they correspond to those of the city, and so that students would no longer derive a financial advantage from keeping their cars unregistered. More important, the Administration should renounce its vague policy of placing undergraduates on probation for indefinite parking violations described only as "flagrant." It should, in the words of the Council, "make a definite statement of the number and types of offenses which could lead to this action." It would thereby eliminate an arbitrary "justice" that could certainly not be applied to local citizens outside the University...