Word: flout
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...University of Maryland was a sea of tranquillity; not a picket had been visible on campus all year. Properly impressed, Maryland President Wilson H. Elkins last month commended his 22,000 students for "their orderly conduct and constructive criticism," and deplored "the small groups" at other campuses, "which flout regulations, oppose any authority and confuse freedom with license to do as they wish...
Those who plan to flout the Supreme Court's ruling are wrong for at least three reasons. The first is that the Constitution, as interpreted by the Court, is the law of the land; to disobey the Court is to disobey the law. This reason is legally convincing but morally empty; the Dred Scott decision was the law, too, yet those who disobeyed it were right...
...little green pamphlet given to each student at registration, of which paragraph 1a under the section on Recognition of Organizations specifies that the group "must submit to the Dean's Office a constitution and by-laws." In this constitution the organization may also be reasonably expected not to flout the general rules under which the College administration must operate, among which are those Fair Educational Practice provisions of the Massachusetts Fair Employment Practice Act which forbid the College to discriminate among its students on the basis of race...
...minority which doesn't oppose the basic concept, but would like to be included. Medicare is being blocked by a doctors' lobby. Where are the forces that speak for the public? Why should it be "safer" for a Congressman to avoid the anger of organized medicine than to flout the wishes of the overwhelming majority? Simply because no one organizes, agitates, and pressures for the majority...
...spiral," work at creating what the designers call "body-conscious shape." Oblique seams, side fastenings and spiral back wrappings encircle the body; simple little dresses are diagonally, often dizzily, detailed by wildly flying panels, bias cuts, tricky scarf necklines. Even Dior's Marc Bohan, who tends to flout the trends, does away with the bulky silhouette; although he concentrates less on S-lines than his colleagues, Bohan's fashions are the tightest, slenderest, most feminine of all. His decidedly youthful designs feature slim, high-bosomed bodices, gently flared skirts, wide cinch-belts and narrow shoulders...