Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the beginning of the present war in Europe, America braced itself for the flood of propaganda that all observers said was sure to come. It has come, and wise newspaper readers are quickly learning to gift out some of the more flagrant stories. But there is another source of propaganda harder to spot, though no less influential. It is in the American pulpit and university, always powerful molders of public opinion. Within the past few weeks, the leaders of religion and education in this country have spoken with an amazing unanimity in strong support of the Allies. If vehemence...
...Nine-Power treaty (signed in 1922 by the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands, Portugal, Japan, China-Wang Chung-hui himself was a negotiator and signer-guaranteeing China's territorial integrity). Japan, said Foreign Minister Wang, is surrounded by jealous nations who frown on her flagrant violation of the treaty; the U. S., having given evidences of displeasure, might mediate a peace restoring the treaty-i.e., throwing Japan out of China...
...went to bat. His was the hardest job of all. Why fight? Why kill off millions for another Versailles, another poor peace, yet another war? Anthony Eden took to the radio and said to the world: "The Nazi System and all that it has implied (naked aggression . . . cynical dissimulation . . . flagrant mockery . . . lawlessness . . . bloodshed . . . ) must go." The Nazis purged, said he, civilization might again nourish-"for some forces are bigger than men. And in that new civilization will be found liberty and opportunity and hope...
President Fisher promptly decided to fight against his removal, charged that Governor Martin had flatly declared his job was political. His shocked friends declared that his ouster was a flagrant case of "interference by Fascist-minded reactionaries in an American school." By last week protest had been made to Governor Martin by the entire college faculty and student body, all six of the State's Representatives in Congress, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the American Federation of Teachers, labor unions, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, many an educator, many a Washington Democrat...
...longer able to act as if tyranny did not exist. Therefore, we must act in order that it shall not exist. In this struggle, every day more urgent, no one can exactly take our place." Solemnly they heard him call the rape of Czecho-Slovakia "a flagrant violation," the rape of Albania a gesture "of diabolical flamboyance," cry "that from this great meeting there comes forth a sentence without appeal against the mystics of violence...