Word: flaunts
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...Adamsians don't like it, let them transfer to the Quad where you never have to wait in line. Let them sing and dance and flaunt their 84 layers of clothing on the tables in Cabot--especially when the dining hall is flooded. Let them smoke up a storm and try to set off the smoke detectors in Currier--if they can. Let them redecorate the hotelesque decor at North House to all black. I don't care...
Ominously recalling Iran in the months before the Ayatullah Khomeini's revolution, thousands of Muslim worshipers manifest their desire for an Islamic republic by walking to the Kouba mosque each Friday morning. The men flaunt their allegiance by wearing long cotton kamis and beards -- reputedly the dress of the Prophet Muhammad. The sheik whom they come to hear speaks of martyrdom and sedition...
John plays drums in a Republican band, the only legal way for kids in Belfast to flaunt their defiance. Like almost all Catholic ghetto kids, he's been in and out of trouble with the law since he was a child, but he has been extra careful since his last arrest two years ago. He wears his brown hair short, but not punk short, and he has no tattoos or earrings. He wears a blue Windbreaker and jeans. He is earnest, painstakingly sincere and a walking encyclopedia of the I.R.A. party line -- he has carefully shed any trace...
...shock of those seismic years. As an adman, he taught America's children the insistent demand "I want my Maypo." In the early 1980s he recycled the line to meet their grownup tastes: "I want my MTV." And he's the man who told people, "When you got it, flaunt it" (for Braniff airlines, remember?), a pretty good description of his advertising ethos...
...Johnston notes, a woman athlete eager to avoid being "branded" as a lesbian may flaunt her heterosexuality, and an insensitivity "one level above homophobia" is likely to emerge...