Word: flaunts
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...from that to use by the hippie movement-those who flaunt all the conventions of organized society," he added...
Gillett, who is an Englishman, indulges in some shaky transatlantic sociology while trying to explain how the music transcended the color line and why postwar youth-through its excessive leisure time and readiness to flaunt opposition to the adult world-was eager to accept the rough, driving new sound. Written originally as an M.A. thesis, The Sound of the City sometimes gives off a faint odor of scholarly stuffiness. It is startling to see early greats like Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Bo Diddley referred to, in the best tradition of academic criticism, by their surnames. Saying Domino without Fats...
...units. In August he increased monthly benefits for each veteran by the buying-power equivalent of $7.50. Meanwhile, the disabled veterans, who still draw as little as $14 a month, continue to be restive. While the majority have contented themselves mainly with public protests in which they flaunt their hideous wounds, perhaps 500 of them practice extortion and other criminal activities...
Barefoot and Pregnant. The day's crowds ranged in size from as many as 20,000 marchers on New York's Fifth Avenue to four women hurling eggs at a Pittsburgh radio station whose disk jockey had dared protesters to flaunt their liberation. In nearly half a dozen cities, women swept past headwaiters to "liberate" all-male bars and restaurants. At the Detroit Free Press, women staffers, angered because male reporters had two washrooms while they had only one, stormed one of the men's rooms, ousted its inhabitants and occupied it for the rest...
...from tank top through the classic skivvy T shirt to the long-sleeved variety favored by snowbound North Dakota farmers. Some models sport one red sleeve and one blue, joined by a rainbowed trunk. Some stop fetchingly just above the navel, others stretch down to the ankle. Almost all flaunt a symbol, and the range is all-encompassing. The ideological warriors can sport the peace sign, the clenched fist marking Women's Liberation or even the Viet Cong flag. Exhibitionists will love the startling model imprinted with a properly located life-size photo of a pair of breasts. Optimists...