Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kaesong's U.N. headquarters ("Everlasting Stability Terrace") to the conference building two blocks down the road. On the way, the admiral's jeep passed within a few feet of a column of 83 Chinese soldiers, heavily armed with mortars, machine guns, rifles, pistols, grenades. It was a flagrant violation of assurances given by the Reds to General Matthew Ridgway last month that they would respect a neutral zone around Kaesong, would keep armed soldiers out of the conference area...
Perhaps the most flagrant example of how poor is "Streetcar's" direction is in the final moments, where a doctor and a matron take Blanche to an asylum. The scene lost most of its power when these two characters walked in looking like something out of a freak show and provoked a loud guffaw from the audience...
...ground forces upon Europe. Both the Kremlin and Washington have long understood (without any official statement) that the West will use its A-bombs if the Red army marches into Western Germany. This winter's shifts in the U.S. attitude give the Kremlin reason to fear that other flagrant aggressions by the Red army will call forth the full power of U.S. retaliation. But the Kremlin knows it can still start brush fires which the U.S. and its allies will have to handle on a local, not a global, basis. Korea brought home to the U.S. the realization that...
...September, had made the U.N.'s most significant decision since its establishment in 1945, to wit, that the veto-free Assembly could act against aggression whenever a veto blocked the Security Council. But it closed on a note of evasion, not firmness, without applying its new power against flagrant Chinese Communist aggression...
Although the down-to-earth picture occasionally contained such flagrant reader-catchers as "What I told Kinsey" (by a young Negro schoolmarm), it was generally a lively, well-edited presentation of Negro life. With Digest (circ. 115,025) and Ebony (circ. 350,000), Johnson became the leading U.S. Negro publisher...