Word: flout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimly explained why the job had to be done. "The Communist program for American labor is a program of destruction," he said. The leaders of a small percentage of the C.I.O., men pledged to "harassment, opposition and obstructionism," subscribe to that program. "They reject our basic policies; they flout the wishes of the majority. No self-respecting organization can long tolerate this dangerous division . . . The majority has the inherent right to protect its course of action and its future stability...
...lawyer, he wasn't a detective, and he wasn't physically tough. But he had a genius for ferreting out the sources of gangsters' income and jailing crooks for tax evasion. Elmer Irey and his T-men put the finger on such arrogant law-flout-ers as Al Capone, "Nucky" Johnson, Moe Annenberg and Tom Pendergast...
...Israelis continued to flout U.N. authority. Last week they arrested two U.N. observers, explaining that they had been "found wandering around" near the front without their Jewish liaison officer and had simply been "deposited at the bar in their hotel." When the U.N. requested permission for the Egyptians to send food convoys to troops trapped in the Faluja pocket, the Jews stalled. Said one government official: "They are there as a result of their aggression. If they need supplies, we will be willing to accept their surrender...
...sister's, or laundress') eye view of how the popular favorite "really lives"; 2) the shopgirl-to-star Cinderella story; 3) discreet gossip-usually handled (for up to $1,000 a story) by Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons, Sidney Skolsky or some other expert big enough to flout studio censorship...
...caught and processed 66% of the world's tuna in their floating canneries, virtually monopolized the $8-million-a-year catch of the Bering Sea's huge king crabs. The Explorer will also find out if Russia will, like Canada, respect international conservation regulations, or, like Japan, flout them...