Word: flagrantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday--"Yale Mary", Jean-Luc Godard's controversial sequel to last year's hit "Hail Mary" opens amid virulent protest at the Orson Welles Theatre. The film, featuring Eli Jodie Foster as an undergraduate English major and part-time mother of God, is condemned by President Bok as "flagrant Yale propaganda." Bok adds, "Besides, Princeton is the only Ivy school that can boast a celebrated virgin...
...that apartheid raises against their choice of where to live and work, by supporting organizations working against the influx control laws, or by meeting directly with officials of the South African government to urge repeal of the laws. We continue to urge companies to be active opponents of this flagrant from of injustice and plan to intensify our efforts in this regard during the coming year...
...meat. Monkfish, once $1 a pound, is now $3, and the price of squid has quadrupled. There is also a stronger incentive for unscrupulous restaurant owners to pass off such inexpensive varieties as red grouper, shark or pollack for red snapper, swordfish or striped bass. One of the most flagrant transgressions in recent seasons has been the substitution of inexpensive calico scallops from Florida for the more delicate variety found in the Northeast...
...Philadelphia's John Cardinal Krol. "When it comes to speaking about the doctrine of the church, we are not free to make up our own minds," says Archbishop John May of St. Louis. "For a sister or priest to deny the teaching of the church is a scandal . . . a flagrant, flashy and deliberate affront...
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR was a bumper year for the Ministry of Truth as well as for the Ministry of Peace. Even more jarring than the flagrant and continued lying on factual matters--and the continual media acceptance of same--was the redoubled effort to drown the citizen in a sea of rhetorical democracies and freedoms, whose real counterparts are not found to be present on closer examination...