Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less angry than disheartened, less vengeful than perplexed. Never in my life has even a subtle gesture of anti-Semitism been waged against me. Were the offense flagrant, then my response would be clear. But I can not discern the implications if I can hardly presume the intent. A janitor may have removed it for noncompliance with housing codes, unaware of its significance. Yet, I reject this as unlikely; it was legally hung on poster clay which remains in place, and few janitors would so boldly invade a private doorway. Nor was it a likely candidate for unft...
...this is but an isolated event. I have raised my voice unnecessarily, but not inappropriately. For we should always caution ourselves to respect others customs even in the least offensive circumstances. Flagrant intrusions happen infrequently and must be monitored. Yet even non-malicious inconveniences should be carefully avoided and sympathetically addressed. In a world that has surrendered to prejudices of countless ugly forms, the Harvard community, in particular, has every means and motivation to vigilantly honor its members' unalienable rights. Ellen Resnick...
...brother and my cousin against the outsider." Syria is vastly unpopular within the Arab fold, but last week one Arab state after another condemned the U.S. raid. Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, expressed his government's "deep concern," while Kuwait railed against the "flagrant aggression." Even Arafat, who has been practically driven into the sea by Syrian-supported P.L.O. rebels, issued a statement backing Syria against the U.S. "I fully support the Syrian army against the American raids," Arafat told reporters while negotiations continued for his evacuation from Tripoli...
Reagan's approach revives a long tradition of American assertiveness in the hemisphere. As President Theodore Roosevelt, the original wielder of the big stick, said in 1904, "The Monroe Doctrine may force the U.S., however reluctantly in flagrant cases of wrongdoing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power." During the 1920s, U.S. Marines were involved in extended occupations of Nicaragua, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In all, American forces have intervened 26 times in Latin America during this century...
...part of the Commonwealth and has the Queen as its monarch. France proved to hold the key anti-American vote during the United Nations Security Council debate on the invasion. It cast its weight behind a resolution that "deeply deplores the armed intervention in Grenada, which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and of the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of that state." The vote was 11 to 1, with Britain abstaining; the U.S. was forced to use its veto in order to kill the resolution...