Word: flagrantly
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Millre declared the action barring Oppenheimer "an egregious insult to a great scholar" and "a flagrant violation of the fundamental principles of intellectual integrity and liberty of spirit upon which the education system of a free society is erected...
Terence S. Turner '55, vice-president of the H.L.U., said last night, "The sense of the motion was that the violation of international law (the Chinese illegally convicted soldiers in uniform of spying) was so cynical and flagrant that we could not afford to neglect our moral responsibility to deal with the situation as a matter of principle; which would mean going along with the U.N. to the farthest degree possible before we took a unilateral course such as is now contemplated...
...mother of Major Baumer accused Washington of "dillydallying" but she was comforted when the White House called, assuring her that everything "humanly possible within peaceful means" was being done to get the Americans released. Said the State Department: "A most flagrant violation of justice." The British government was shocked out of its usual line of "Let's not be beastly to the Chinese Reds"; the Foreign Office called the imprisonment of the 13 Americans "outrageous" and promised to "do all in our power to mitigate this great, grievous wrong." Senator William F. Knowland called for "a tight naval blockade...
Probably McCarthy's most flagrant abuse was his practice of holding one-man hearings, sitting himself almost as a judge and jury. As Dean Griswold said in his address to the Massachusetts Bar Association last winter, "There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...
...seems incomprehensible that TIME, Oct. 25 could refer to Daniel Malan as "the most hated man in [South] Africa, etc." I refute this flagrant untruth. He has . . . been elected to power repeatedly. After all, the people could have chosen an arrogant Englishman, but they didn...