Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Samples of notes taken by students in the lectures of Paul P. Cram, instructor in History, were included, aiming to show that some of his statements were outright propaganda...
...Shirley Temple; he has coined (or quoted) sparkling epigrams--the kind that Vag, himself coins (or quotes) in his day-dreams--on Chekhov and on Mrs. Roosevelt. But through it all Vag has sat disconsolate. A smile now and then has crossed his face, but he hasn't laughed outright more than twice...
...would gladly fight-without having first consulted the Indians. In protest eight of eleven Congress Party Cabinets resigned, among them the one which had devised Bombay's prohibition law. With prohibitionists out of power, a British High Court last week pleaded complicated legal technicalities and effectively nullified prohibition outright...
Higher and Higher (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman). In virtually all musicomedies, the book is merely a nuisance, like the bones in fish. But in Higher and Higher it becomes as much of an outright menace as maggots in cheese...
...wavy, flame-red hair (balding on top), is his belief that this is very much a U. S. war. He makes no secret of his Franco-British sympathies, believes the war may last six years or longer, end in a Soviet Europe. In his first lectures he called for outright U. S. intervention. Now he no longer flatly advocates intervention in his lecture; but in the question period that follows, he generally makes his conviction amply clear. So far he has told an estimated 70,000 people his belief that...