Word: flagrant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Second, repeated, or flagrant violations will be brought to the attention of the Ad Board...
...would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges D'Anthes, to a duel. Pushkin was shot in the stomach and died two days later...
...black people were to raffle themselves off to whites to raise money, such a flagrant reinforcement of their oppression would not be tolerated by anybody. But women, in raffling themselves off to men, are perpetuating their own second class status--and this is accepted by both men, and women. Women are not objects to be bought and sold--even in jest. Donna E. Lieberman '70 of the Committee of Women...
...could eventually become the only orderly way to raise armed forces. The draft, though it will prevail by law at least through 1971, is under growing attack. In the mid-'50s, most military-age men eventually got drafted, and the inequities of exempting the remainder were not flagrant. Now, despite Viet Nam, military draft needs are dropping, partly because in 1966 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara started a "project 100,000," which slightly lowered mental and physical standards and drew 70,000 unanticipated volunteers into the forces. Meanwhile, the pool of men in the draftable years is rising, increasingly...
...complaining to Oriana that she could never find a man strong enough to dominate her, Actress Anna Magnani finally asked, "Tell me, what do you really think of me?" Replied Oriana: "I think-I think you're a great man, Signora Magnani." When she caught Hugh Hefner in flagrant hypocrisy, Oriana remarked, "Here the donkey falls...