Word: flaunted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-class compartment, the Agriculture Secretary spied Singers Pat Boone and Sonny Bono, and John Dean, the former White House counsel who had blown the whistle on Richard Nixon and had just worked the convention as a writer for Rolling Stone. A gregarious man who likes to flaunt his snappy country-and often barnyard-sense of humor, Butz, 67, wandered over to make idle conversation, after Knapp had warned him that Dean was now a reporter...
...months are "very aware of sexual differences," easily aroused sexually, and in fact are masturbating as part of normal development. Dr. Galenson feels that adult sexual problems like frigidity may have their origins in these early months of life. To minimize these disturbances, she suggests that parents not flaunt sexual differences by marching around nude in front of young children or show strong disapproval of masturbation. Parents should also be constantly available to their children during the critical and insecure age of 15 to 17 months...
...flaunt your power throughout your book, Ms. Fallaci. In fact, it seems you or your publishers sent the complete text of the Bhutto interview to Ms. Ghandi, whom you supported at the time, and you describe the final outcome--Ghandi's triumph and Bhutto's embarrassment--with arrogant glee...
...playoff ball only hits cities with winning basketball teams. And records of 8-18 (Harvard) and 7-11 (Radcliffe) aren't quite what the tournament committees have in mind. Sure the Celtics will eventually be going after yet another flag to flaunt from the Garden rafters but until then Harvard hoop fans will have to languish in their rooms dispassionately watching an endless stream of regional triple headers...
GIOVANNI probed the relationships between men and women in a book of prose pieces called Gemini, too. This writer's thoughts seldom take to much studied analysis--whatever form she arranges them in--but her prose tends to flaunt a certain intrigue that the poems fall shy of. Why, she groans, don't black men assert any control over white men? They're being dogged by death anyway, so they can't be anxious about dying. She figures they don't want white men mad at them. White women seek equality first and then follow the example of black...