Word: flaunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...torrential storyteller who has been compared with France's famed mulatto novelist, Alexandre Dumas, Yerby says: "Dumas was proud of his race, and so am I, but I don't flaunt it." Few of the Southern housewives who buy Yerby's slick melodramas of sex, sadism and violence know that their favorite author is a Negro. Nothing in his stories of strutting white aristocrats, swooning heiresses and yassuhing darkies would declare it, and jacket blurbs, noting that the Georgia-born author formerly taught at Florida A. & M. and Louisiana's Southern Univesity, leave...
...give up the veto. Yet, in a conference on Charter revision, neither power would want to be branded as obstructionist. If the United States, for example either voted against a review conference or refused to consider abolition of the veto, the USSR would have an effective propaganda weapon to flaunt before the world...
Others point out that Schine seemed unable to forget his money. He used to flaunt his wealth a great deal. One roommate remembers his coming into the room saying, "I'm signing a check for $3,000. Have you ever signed a check for that much?" Another remembers him carrying a suitcase with $1,100 in it through the Yard, "just...
...here apply the same principle of condemnation to legislative and to criminal investigations it should, perhaps, be noted that, while police officers who use the "third degree" find it advisable to do their illegal work in secret, the Congressional inquisitors flaunt their tortures before the public eye and ear as they try, in the words of the Report, "to win applause by producing a victim when popular clamor demands the solution of a crime...
Petty undergraduate restrictions are a further device toward college unity, but most are poorly enforced, Freshmen and sophomores easily flaunt the restrictions on automobiles, and are only caught by having an accident. Though eight o'clock parietal rules are in effect, the quadrangle has three entrances. And Pembroke's is easily accessible. Chapel is compulsory, to be attended once a week, between the final morning class and 12:30 p.m. Refrectory lunch. Most students find it convenient to attend, and, if unable to, can use one of several cuts permitted each term...