Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...caught. Once in a while, as in the case of Finland's great Miler Paavo Nurmi, their financial shenanigans have come to light, and resulted in suspensions from amateur competition. In the U.S. the hardheaded high brass of the A.A.U. have cracked down on the few flagrant cases they could hardly overlook. Little has been done, however, to liberalize the main cause of the cheating-the outdated ceiling of $15 a day on athletes' expense accounts...
...proctors cannot prevent some amount of cheating, this does not mean that they are unnecessary. They are essential both to stop any flagrant abuses and to maintain good order. In a school as large and diverse as Harvard, an honor code could not replace the need for some degree of outside control. Nevertheless, proctors should show more respect for the student as a mature individual, who is not intent on "beating the system," but simply wants a more relaxed and less regimented examination room...
...only help him but pay him." As early as 1852 the House of Representatives chased lobbyists from its floor, and in 1875 Congress pushed through a rule requiring their registration. But at the next session the lobbyists lobbied the rule out of existence, and lobbying became not only more flagrant but more fragrant. During Woodrow Wilson's Administration, Senate investigators discovered that one of their own teen-age pages was being paid to tip off the National Association of Manufacturers' lobbyist about confidential cloakroom talks...