Word: brazened
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...stated publicly that he considered Raja'i a bad choice. But he finally bowed to clerical pressures and nominated Raja'i at the "recommendation" of a parliamentary commission controlled by the I.R.P. Explained a senior civil servant: "Khomeini was becoming impatient. It was obvious that the more brazen-faced mullahs would...
Perhaps the most brazen of all the mullahs, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, thus consolidated his party's power and made good on a seven-month-old vow to reduce the popularly elected President to a figurehead. Even Banisadr's attempt to retain his constitutional veto rights over Cabinet appointments was rudely quashed by the mullahs. "The Prime Minister," insisted Beheshti, "must be free to choose anyone he deems fit for Cabinet positions...
...American good humor seems forced here - as if he had wandered into his own funeral and resolved to brazen it out. -By Richard Corliss
That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when...
...Soviets did not let the matter rest. The news agency TASS charged that the U.S. had put forward these "brazen anti-Soviet forgeries" as an excuse for stockpiling biological weapons of its own. And at the Geneva conference, the Kremlin's delegate dismissed Western suspicions about the anthrax outbreak as "symptoms of another epidemic disease, namely anti-Soviet hysteria" inspired by the invasion of Afghanistan...