Word: flaunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...
Novelist Charles Yale Harrison may flaunt his return to heavy cigarette smoking after a serious coronary attack at the age of 49-if he wishes-in his book Thank God for My Heart Attack . . . However, great harm may come from TIME's blithe presentation [May 23] of Harrison's stand to millions of readers, without inserting some hint of the possible dangers involved...
...have known for a long time what many of them like to forget: that, in case of a war in which France and Russia found themselves on opposing sides, the French Communists would do their utmost to hamstring the French war effort. The novelty was that the comrades should flaunt their treasonable intentions so openly...
Four ties, one loss, and only one victory is hardly an impressive record to flaunt before any Boston University baseball team, but that's the slate Moe Berg's Freshman nine carries with it to Riverside's Nickerson Field this afternoon when it faces the Terriers in a return engagement...
Among the handicapped, there is a bond of ready friendship; they "flaunt their fraternity badges," fraternize wherever they meet. Some members of the fraternity: Actor Herbert Marshall, Playwright Laurence Stallings, Singer Connee Boswell, Planemaker Major Alexander de Seversky, American Veterans Committee's Charles Bolte...