Word: flout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flout my claim to Harvard niche would hardly be effectual...
...with the waters of Szechwan; possible to warm the homes of Shanghai with the coal of Shansi, possible to fuel the trucks of Yünnan with the oil of Sinkiang. The vision is too great, the hope too high for any group or any individual to dare to flout it with impunity...
...King Leopold's dilemma was acute. As a constitutional monarch, he could not flout the advice of Belgium's Premier, unless he could replace him with a less hostile Premier. But any Premier and Cabinet that favored the King's return could be fairly sure of a resounding no-confidence vote in Belgium's Parliament. To St. Wolfgang the King urgently summoned several leading Belgians for talks. Reports that Leopold would appoint prewar Premier Paul van Zeeland or Lieut. General Ganshof van der Meersh, a Resistance leader, as Premier were met by Brussels trade unions with...
...This flout in the face of fashion was, of course, made by a doctor: Dr. Milton Plotz of Brooklyn's Long Island College of Medicine. In the current American Journal of Diseases of Children he reports the case of a mother with 1) upswept hair and 2)a baby which had had eczema for all but the first two of its ten months of life. Observing that the rash was confined to those parts of the baby which would normally touch its mother's hair, he had a sudden hunch. A test on a clear patch...
...marks ($200) with the alternative of six months in jail. Friedel Souvignier wept, the others protested. The captain was polite but unmoved. He explained to newsmen that he wanted to set an example of severity. This is the way all U.S. Army courts will deal with those Germans who flout its military laws...