Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Realizing full well that circumstances have put overwhelming power in his hands -and realizing, too, that his stand lays him open to the charge that he is merely inverting Nazi racial prejudice-Rabbi Abramowitz does not ban marriages outright. "I don't want to decide on another fellow's life," he says. After talking it over with the couple, he advises them to seek out some other chaplain who will grant permission-if one can be found...
President Truman today asked Congress to repeal 24 wartime control laws outright and listed 78 others he wanted to be extended or allowed to lapse...
...have no stake in the film, having sold the movie rights to the book outright more than eight years...
...week's end, U.S. Embassy observers said that the Poles regarded their election with "cynicism, hopelessness, fear and abject submission." But Observer Ingersoll thus wound up his mission to Warsaw: "There was what we would call gross unfairness in the campaign [but] alleged outright fraud in the counting is not substantiated . . . the way to get them to hold Marquis of Queensbury elections here is to applaud them for what they are doing so courageously and well. . . . And if this be lecturing my countrymen, let them make the most...
...Another 1.2 million shares were held by Ball as security for an additional $2 million which Young needed to complete the deal.) For this small amount of money, Bob Young got close to $2 billion worth of assets, on the books. The assets included either large stock interests or outright control of a dozen railroads with 23,000 miles of track, coal mines, trucking companies, peach orchards. And some trouble...