Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 1,500 student car-owners at the College, the spring of 1955 has hardly been an auspicious one. First University Hall placed a dozen undergraduates on probation for "flagrant" parking violations, and then local citizens, led by Councilman Edward J. Sullivan, demanded that the University permit only seniors to have automobiles at school. Together these two events have seemingly jeopardized the undergraduate's car-owning privilege. At the very least they have caused the student to await with apprehension the Administration's next decision on the parking problem...
...bombed North Korean airfields to document an important fact: no Red jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...
...next April's general elections, despite Geneva's insistence that everyone gets a vote. The commission's Indians, Canadians, and Polish Communists backed up the Democrats, and cautioned King Norodom not to violate Geneva (which the Communists have already violated in half a dozen more flagrant ways...
...Administration's most flagrant missteps in the internal security field are well known. Among the martyrs have been Wolf Ladejinsky, who was declared a "security risk" by the Agriculture Department and then cleared and re-hired by the Foreign Operations Administration, and Professor Val Lorwin, whom the Justice Department indicted for perjury on what it later admitted were false grounds. The general faults of the security program have included its vague definition of a "security risk", its failure to provide legal officers at hearings, its lack of any machinery for appeals, and its refusal to let the accused employee confront...
Seven undergraduates were put on a month's probation for "flagrant violation of University and Cambridge parking regulations," Dean Delmar Leighton revealed yesterday. The seven, who are juniors and seniors in good academic standing, had received at least eight and in some cases 12 tickets apiece for illegal parking during the past academic year...