Word: flagrante
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...Tories strained to take it out on Socialism. In the House of Commons Winston Churchill flashed some of his old form and fire: "The brute fact is that Socialism means mismanagement ... incompetence. . . . Let us hope the nation will realize from this flagrant example the downward stairway upon which they are now thrust and down which they have descended only the first few steps...
Honking & Clashing. Although the graft was perhaps more flagrant than usual, most other signs in the new 7,038-island republic were encouraging. Cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod: "If independence can be made to work in the Orient, it will work here. There is more reconstruction here than in Siam, Burma and Indonesia combined. All night long, air hammers and steam shovels stutter and grunt through Manila's pleasantly cool darkness. In daylight, thousands of new passenger cars and bright orange and yellow buses, but above all jeeps-taxi jeeps, truck jeeps and passenger jeeps-turn downtown Manila into...
...flagrant cases of Errol Flynn and Charlie Chaplin in propagating marital irresponsibility among the youth of this country are not sterilized by the example of the few nice people in Hollywood," Carle C. Zimmerman, assistant professor of Sociology, yesterday retorted to movie colony protests which had arisen because of a similar statement he had made recently...
...heretofore undiscovered processes." Maugham gets nothing from the current version of "Of Human Bondage," but Warner Brothers adds another small fortune to its collection. In the case of a one-shot writer such as Margaret Mitchell, the peculiarities of the system become more flagrant. Magazine writers and novelits, too, are confronted with a series of arbitrary rules and regulations all operating to the advantage of the publishers...
...commend you for taking a firm stand against the flagrant price raising practices currently in vogue. That you have the courage to assert your opposition publicly and boldly is heartening to us who depend on you to defend student interest...