Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solved; it is possible to move in Rome--where in today's reality a second subway line has been in lentitudinous progress for over a decade. The sarcasm peels off in layers. The phrases of the book, the pompous, eulogistic style, ridicule bureaucratic rhetoric, while the content, in its flagrant incredibility, attacks the chaos of the existing system and simultaneously mocks the faith that a communist future would be better ordered. And Roman traffic, fluid? Anyone who has ever heard those cliched cracks about the traffic jams of Rome will get that joke...
...OVERALL PICTURE of FBI activities that emerges from these documents is one of flagrant disregard for legality and constitutional guarantees in its quest to suppress what Hoover considered dangerous subversion. None of the groups against which COINTELPRO was directed has engaged in illegal activities. In fact, it was precisely the legal activities of the SWP which drove the FBI to attack them; Hoover ordered a disruption campaign against the SWP because...
...behind tenure denials is masked by objective criteria (e.g., poor teaching performance, insufficient scholarly publication) that are legally acceptable grounds for dismissal. However, at Boston Stage College as case of tenure has arisen where the mask is so thin it fails to hide what can only be termed a flagrant violation of academic freedom and first amendment rights...
...telegram...with its necessary knock and its flagrant yellow, and its curt phrase of necessary English--I know not which sense was more offended--hit me in the wing and I fell a heaped corpse upon the earth. The sense, if that can be said to have sense which has so little sound, was to discredit the respectability of a house in Fitzroy Square. And there you see me in the mud. Shall I argue that a mind that knows not Gibbon knows not mortality? or shall I affirm that bad English and respectability are twin sisters, dear...
...University police are also more lenient with University-affiliated cars that are parked illegally but are not blocking a fireplug or firelane. "We only tow those if they are flagrant or repeating offenders," Gorski said...