Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...City, Ohio's Senator Robert A. Taft (after blaming the Army for enforcing the law too literally) agreed to sponsor an amendment to his Title V of the Soldier Vote Act which would make it "easier to administer . . . clearer in context." Unappeased, some publishers and writers still demanded outright repeal...
There were very few outright collaborationists, and the Normans instinctively knew them for what they were. Most of these few disappeared with the retreating Germans...
...British agreement would be worthless unless Washington endorsed it. No one expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...
Money for Politics? The plan was prime political bait, thrown out by a Government whose election prospects have been steadily diminished by the rise of the socialist C.C.F. The socialists took their time about commenting. Tory Leader John Bracken damned the scheme outright ("All the earmarks of a political bribe"). Canada's trade-union leaders suspected a move to substitute a dole for higher wages. In low-wage, Catholic Quebec, where the Government hoped to make its biggest hit, there were complaints that the plan discouraged big families. Throughout Canada, the opposition press raised an almost unanimous hullabaloo...
President Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...