Word: flaunting
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...activities (TIME, Feb. 7). On this point Dr. Schuschnigg reputedly showed that he has documentary proofs of German financing and instigation of plots against his Government by Austrian Nazis recently arrested. In return for a reputed pledge by Hitler to squelch Austrian Nazi violence, Schuschnigg reputedly pledged not to flaunt his evidence of German guilt before the world and to amnesty the Austrian Nazis now in jail, may even take an Austrian Nazi into his Cabinet. None of this did the Austrian people know officially for sure, but they had their Adam's apples again under control...
Decision to flaunt union strength before all non-members of the unit was unanimously voted at a meeting last Wednesday...
...from uncivilized are the natives, for, in their disdain of modern conveniences and the furious speed of polo-shirted tourists, they flaunt a sophistication far more tangible than the bored expression of those who have lived a life of smiles and champagne--theirs is a sophistication sprung from the steaming earth, the planting of their crops, and the legends of their ancestors and their ancestors' gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious...
...with their cuffs. Out of the corner of his mouth one of them says to an old lady in the crowd: ''Why don't you join the Army, Ma? You'd get a better view. . . ." The King's Company of the Grenadier Guards proudly flaunt their new King's Color...
...Here the uncontradicted evidence shows that the plaintiff is actuated by the bona fide intent to give each and every patron a valid option to buy a particular dog. If such patrons choose to flaunt [sic] his good intentions and buy options to line their pockets with unholy gains they cannot thereby make a criminal out of him. Were the rule otherwise, every cotton and commodity broker or dealer in the land would be in jail before nightfall. Does anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery...