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Word: flaunts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Communications Commission is planning "strong action against WHRB and other college stations that persistently flaunt the law," an FCC official said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FCC Plans to Seek Court Order Against Delinquent College Stations | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

Geoffrey M. Kalmus '56, president of WHRB, denied that his station defied the law. "The charges that we either flaunt the law or are disrespectful of it are untrue," he declared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FCC Plans to Seek Court Order Against Delinquent College Stations | 12/10/1955 | See Source »

More positively, the Crimson has its own statistics to flaunt. While Beagle leads the Ivy League in total offense with 556 yards, Matt Botsford, who has alternated at tailback with Jim Joslin for the Crimson, and has played in only three games, has piled up 407. Even with Beagle's passing supporting the whole Indian offense, Dartmouth has averaged only 239.3 yards per game against Harvard's league-leading...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Crimson Favored to Beat Winless Dartmouth | 10/22/1955 | See Source »

...peek-a-boo technique. "Allo, Joe, it's meee-ee," she coos. A second later she is up and mincing forward as purposefully pigeon-toed as Betty Boop. Along the line two gloves and a skirt fly off; then, as suddenly sultry as the sirocco, Lola wheels to flaunt the angular arabesques of Theda Bara, flicks a shapely backside at her prey, slides out of a pair of lace panties, and departs northward to bump and grind in the old-fashioned tradition of burlesque. Pleased and bewildered, Ballplayer Joe sits happily helpless through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Devil's Disciple | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

...moral circus that he is showing them, and so he keeps himself the lens through which they observe. When he distorts it is to clarify or magnify the hidden part in which he feels the meaning lies, never to call direct attention to his own feelings or flaunt stylistic achievement. In this record of the greatest show on earth the poet breaks his reserve only to let a little wryness creep into certain turns of phrase, sudden words that seem to betray a tiny, noncommital wrinkle at the corner of the mouth. But this is an individuality which does...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Poetry of Moral Issues | 5/20/1955 | See Source »

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