Word: flagrante
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...recent flagrant example in the French department reveals an absolute lack of attention to the problem of selecting texts. The outside reading books in French A are picked from a group of little pamphlets which come in four series, each more difficult than the last, and each series, contains four books. Since French A is the elementary course, its outside reading was supposed to come from rather easy books, so the authorities picked a book listed as "Grade I", without bothering to notice that it was "Grade J" in the fourth and most difficult series...
...successful was this flagrant breach of Latin-American diplomatic etiquet that Franklin Roosevelt last week copied it, won vivas and much praise at Rio de Janeiro by appearing for his official welcome in a sack suit...
...have compounded with Adolf Hitler by signing an Anglo-German Treaty authorizing Berlin to build a potent Reich Navy (TIME, June 24, 1935). Neither the British nor the French replied with force - the only language the Nazis under stand - when the Rhineland was remilitarized by Dictator Hitler in flagrant violation of the particularly sacred "Spirit of Locarno" (TIME, March 16). Finally Catholic King Leopold, whose sister may one day be the Queen of Catholic Italy, has found that the Franco-Belgian Alliance of 1920 has now become an alliance of Belgium with a French Government composed of radicals...
...believe that Princeton football crowds have been the worst offenders in the country and we are sure that President Dodds does not think so either. Nor do we believe that Princeton undergraduates are particularly more flagrant in their contradiction of good manners than any other student body. But we do believe that it is high time that somebody made the first move toward eradicating a situation "which seriously menaces the future of the sport as an intercollegiate activity". We are proud of the fact that Princeton is willing to bear the thankless burden of the pioneer. --The Princetonian
...unlimited credit and a long, long time to pay. Plans for the million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with flagrant violation of its pledge not to foster Red propaganda on U. S. soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing as the President's representative but with every listener...