Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around the President are sev eral groups, reflecting the uses he has for them, and his personal liking. Those who attract his mind are usually those who fight a brilliant kind of intellectual guerrilla warfare which their opponents call outright unscrupulous. All are New Dealers to the core-which perhaps explains Mr. Roosevelt's refusal up to now to surrender one jot of the New Deal in the interest of Defense. Yet, Harry Hopkins again excepted, the President's warm, confiding friendliness is reserved for men who are comfortably conservative, cautious, even stodgy by the standards...
Like-minded Mr. Knudsen recently got President Roosevelt to agree in principle to a bill to permit manufacturers to amortize the cost of Defense plants within five years which would give them reasonable protection. Then the President had qualms. Warned that many a Congressman would oppose outright concessions to Business, he had the amortization bill tacked to a complex limitation on excess profits. Net result: certainty that Congress will haggle over this hybrid measure for weeks, while key manufacturers, unsure of their future, remain unwilling to accept Defense orders...
...quarrels about what party should be in power at home, it must acquire the tradition of carrying on a strong, consistent foreign policy, a tradition whose failure has brought France to downfall and Britain to the brink of downfall. To become mistress of the seas would be an outright reversal of U. S. isolationism, but it is a policy on which the U. S. already is launched. It was launched last week when Congress definitely placed an order for a two-ocean navy...
Within six weeks Russia occupied and socialized three Baltic republics, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, took outright from Rumania, Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina. Last week the Red Army was feverishly digging in along the east bank of the Prut while Premier Molotov kept southeast Europe sweating in steam from three valves...
...Russia became an outright fascist state. It accepted the leadership principle with Stalin as Führer, executed all anti-fascist Bolsheviks who objected. >Until then Stalin could not have made a pact with Hitler. After 1937 (the Russian Purge) a pact between the Russian and the German fascists became almost inevitable...