Word: outright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...means. TIME has given isolationists a chance to state their views, but has also published many letters from all-aiders and outright interventionists, the latter including Novelist Humphrey Cobb (TIME...
Hitler in a Hurry. Spring was about to burst upon Europe. Peace must be brought to the Balkans so that Adolf Hitler could devote his best energies to Britain. If Yugoslavia would not join the Axis outright, Hitler would be reasonable. He would settle for partial adherence, with the right to use Yugoslav railways for "supply trains"; then, having cracked the shell of resistance, he could enforce his full demands later on. This sort of reasonableness fooled nobody, least of all Yugoslavia's leaders, but they thought it was better than war against the German machines. Better...
...Germany, a setback in the Balkans would be more than Germany's first outright military defeat in World War II. It would be the turning point...
...preferences indicated in this section of the questionnaire on a three, two, and one point basis the above suggestion received 508 points, far out stripping the other two ideas. The modernization plan got 363 points, and the cafeteria service trailed with only 261 points--as well as drawing 49 outright nays...
...substance of the Council decision was that the outright grant given to the Smoker Committee should be drastically reduced, and that the Committee should determine the size and nature of its party according to the funds it can raise itself, through advertising in the program or any other means. Thus an incentive is given to workers on the Committee, and a greater responsibility is shouldered by them for making the affair a success, not simply by buying the services of outside performers exclusively but by exercising their own initiative. The Council further voted to reserve as far as possible...