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Word: flout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nation of Stewards. Feather's problem is that, as far as labor goes, Britain has always been a nation of shop stewards. The rank and file flout their national leaders, who generally pay little attention to "the blue-collar blokes." Moreover, the T.U.C. is a loose conglomeration of strong individual unions. Since June, Feather has been jawboning his union chiefs on the virtues of labor discipline on the shop floor. His main argument: if the T.U.C.'s voluntary approach fails, Labor will be defeated at the polls, leaving the unions at the not-so-tender mercies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Labor v. Labor | 9/19/1969 | See Source »

...well as large, reaches into city halls and statehouses, taints facets of show business and labor relations, and periodically sheds blood. It has a multiplier effect on crime; narcotics, a mob monopoly, drives the addicted to burglaries and other felonies to finance the habit. Cosa Nostra's ability to flout the law makes preachment of law and order a joke to those who see organized crime in action most often: the urban poor and the black. Says Milton Rector, director of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency: "Almost every bit of crime we study has some link to organized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE CONGLOMERATE OF CRIME | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

Instead of trying to "flout authority and smash institutions," Pusey said that students should "set about calmly and rationally committed to make. . .something good" of the social system...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Pusey Tells Seniors To Redirect Energy And Try to Reform | 6/11/1969 | See Source »

From that analysis, students come to the conclusion that their only redress is to "flout authority and smash institutions." Pusey said that view was "all-too-simple," and developed a long alternative...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Pusey Tells Seniors To Redirect Energy And Try to Reform | 6/11/1969 | See Source »

...strikers during the Guard's initial invasion. At Howard University in Washington, black law students quietly heeded a federal judge's order to end their lock-in, called to obtain more voice in administrative decisions. The student lawyers planned to go on boycotting classes, but not to flout the law they study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Signs of Moderation? | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

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