Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enforcement campaign, which will encompass motor scooters and bicycles as well as cars, has come as a result of continued flagrant violations after previous warnings had been given, McCarthy declared. He cited cars parked within 20 feet of an intersection, parking beside fire hydrants, and failure to be properly registered as the chief automobile offenses...
...thesis Kennedy exhibited a touch of the pedant, replete with myriad footnotes and obscure statistics. There were also a few flagrant rhetorical and grammatical errors: "Even Churchill's speeches... was not the vigorous demand that it was come...
...severe crackdown on violations of motor scooter and bicycle traffic regulations will begin immediately, Sgt. John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer of the Cambridge Police Department, announced yesterday. The crusade is the result of repeated and flagrant disregard for Cambridge ordinances by riders around the University area, he declared...
Among Spanish churchmen, the most conspicuous defiance of Franco was the petition addressed by some 350 Basque priests last May to their bishops. Because of the flagrant "contradiction between Catholic doctrine relating to the human person, and the violation of this doctrine by a regime that proclaims its official Catholicism and enjoys the full support of the hierarchy," said the priests, a rising wall of hostility was choking off their ministry. If the causes of the discontent were ignored, the Basque priests warned, the consequences "can harm the church in our diocese for generations to come." Neither the pre-censored...
Bryan, of course, is not called Bryan in the picture; all the principal characters are given false names. But their historical identities, emphasized by the makeup department and in the script, are never in doubt, and the flagrant distortion of their qualities and motives may therefore seem all the more reprehensible to moviegoers who hold these serious and important men in memory. Mencken, for example, is portrayed by Gene Kelly as a lip-curling, hat-tilting city-room slicker who talks the sort of typewritten tarradiddle that does less than justice to the rich, organic vocabulary of the author...