Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Flagrant Examples. The week began with a cease-fire between the judge and Seale. Hoffman allowed the Panther to be unbound, but Seale still insisted upon his right to act as his own counsel. When a California deputy sheriff testified that he had seen Seale board a plane in San Francisco for Chicago, the defendant leaped to his feet and started cross-examining the witness...
Three times, Hoffman asked Seale to be seated; then he called a luncheon recess. After reconvening the court, the judge solemnly read off what he called only the "most flagrant" examples of Scale's misconduct. When he announced that Scale's case would be "severed" from the others, Seale blurted out: "Hey, what are you trying to pull now?" When told that he would be brought to trial again in April, Seale replied: "I demand an immediate trial right...
Charles meets Sarah Woodruff, a dark, intense governess who has been ostracized by the town for having a flagrant, fleeting affair with a French naval lieutenant. For Fowles, the unrepentant Sarah embodies the qualities that Victorian society tended to repress-passion and imagination. In the forbidden love that grows between her and Charles. Fowles foreshadows the undermining of an entire epoch. In Sarah's eventual rejection of Charles, to take up a bohemian existence in the house of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fowles projects the first glimmer of a new and freer...
...Sixth Workday. The wave of repression is washing over everyday Czechoslovaks as well as prominent reformers. Because flagrant on-the-job loafing has made a joke of recent production quotas, the regime is thinking of adding an unpaid sixth day to the work week. Because some 30,000 citizens (by the government's own, probably conservative count) are living in the West illegally, the regime has canceled 100,000 tourist visas for travel outside Czechoslovakia. Only supervised groups and party members on official business are now allowed to cross the borders into the West...
According to Ivy League rules, no member was allowed to hold any sort of formal practice until yesterday. But Saturday morning, in Ithaca, New York, Cornell's Ivy League and Eastern championship hockey team was holding a closed practice, in flagrant violation of League regulations. Cornell coach Ned Harkness has been unethical for several years. Now he is illegal, and it is time for Cornell to be penalized...