Word: flaunts
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...President's aides were puzzled by the lack of jubilation. Said one: "I would have thought that just for political reasons, they would have made more of a to-do." The Administration even passed up the arrival of eleven hostages at Newark Airport on Saturday as an opportunity to flaunt its triumph...
...issue boils down to enforcement. Students around the University have been reluctant to talk about the change in the alcohol policy because if they say they are going to flaunt the law, then it might push the University to crack down on them...
Recently a school of social historians have focused scholarly attentions more closely on the period. In doing so, they have begun to reveal a time of harsh penal codes that permitted judges to flaunt the death penalty, a dearth of law enforcement, incipient industrial revolution, violent town-wide football matches, bear baiting, turnpike rioting, abject urban poverty, burgeoning trade, and busting shops...
...reality of status. Merrymount society allows him to play the game, though it does not spell out the regulations. Rule 1 is that friendliness and even sexual intimacy do not automatically confer acceptance. Rule 2 is that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper, a waitress whose services to Teeters include imitations of a pliant...
...politician in the U.S. today: "She handled it exactly like Ronald Reagan. Like him, she showed tremendous inner peace." Democratic strategists, jubilant over her performance, intend to encourage Ferraro to take on the heaviest campaign schedule she can manage. Says one Mondale staffer: "If you've got her, flaunt...