Word: flouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many an honest U.S. newspaperman was outraged last week by flashy, pompous New York Daily News Columnist John O'Donnell, whose hatred for Franklin Roosevelt* and all his works sometimes leads him to flout the standards of his own profession. O'Donnell wrote, as a plain statement of fact, that contraceptives and prophylactic equipment were to become Government Issue for the WAACs...
...themselves and a blow against secret diplomacy. Neither General Giraud, whose authority in North Africa had been recognized by the U.S. and Great Britain while De Gaulle fretted in London, nor U.S. Minister Robert D. Murphy, who has a distaste for both De Gaulle and De Gaullism, dared to flout their will...
...president of the new Foreman's Association of America: "The decision is bad public policy. . . . We will accomplish in the shop what the law intended we should be able to accomplish in the court." Added the union's lawyer, Walter Nelson: "If employers bolstered by the decision flout the union's demands, there will be trouble." This sounded like the threat of a strike: the first strike of organized foremen in U.S. history...
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout...
...symbol of this namesake of a great American educator. First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto-and the first to heed a Negro's command, the first to flout time-encrusted taboos against "checkerboarding" among licensed personnel...