Word: flaunting
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...vicious knee uppercut that comes close to decapitating downed adversaries. Diamond's most amazing talent is his ability to keep his fedora on, no matter how violent the battle. His worst quality seems to be his flagrant affection for fat fees -a penchant that his fellow sleuths seldom flaunt so openly...
...matter how successful the McClellan committee and the anti-Hoffa Teamsters may be in the next few months, it is almost certain that Meany and the AFL-CIO will not sit back and let Hoffa flaunt their ultimatums. They will bring as much pressure to bear on Hoffa as they can in the next few months and in December might easily decide to expel him. But we hope that the AFL-CIO does not take this step, for while it might destroy Hoffa, its effects would be far-reaching. It would be a far better thing to have Hoffa defeated...
...even try to be objective. You flaunt your judgments, as if they were divine...
Already Nasser seemed to be back at his old trick of playing off East against West. As if to flaunt in Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal...
...sabotage went on, pointing up the fact that the rebel invaders (including their leader, Fidel Castro) who touched off the unrest were still at large, holed up somewhere in the Sierra Maestra range in Oriente. That they could still flaunt their flag of insurrection especially disconcerted Batista, for it seemed to show that his troops, sent to kill or capture the rebels, lacked the heart or the ability...