Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Haan, a lean, rock-jawed preacher, refuses to say outright whether he has ever seen a Hollywood movie. But he knows from reports, he says, that they are loaded with "sex, drunkenness and crime ... a hindrance to the Kingdom of God." A cigar-smoker and a bowler, Haan denies that his people are narrow. "We are as broadminded as the Word of God allows us to be. . . . [But] we don't want movie actors and actresses to be the educators of our children...
...graduate training in Geography, or some other "weak" area. But from a booklet compilation containing a factual comparison of the scope of graduate programs offered by universities all over the country in a specific field, he could quickly narrow his search to two or three schools, if not choose outright. The information--not evaluation--could be gathered by such organizations as the Rockefeller Foundation or the American Association of University Professors...
...convinced. It thought that China needed military as well as economic assistance. Last week it got plenty of support for this opinion. William C. Bullitt, onetime Ambassador to Russia, came forward to testify that the Nanking government was in immediate need of at least $100 million in outright military aid. To boot, the U.S. should dispatch to China "the best man that can be found"-say, General Douglas MacArthur (see below) or General Mark Clark...
...Prague, the Ministry of Information warned foreign correspondents to "rely mainly on official sources" in reporting the news from Communist-captured Czechoslovakia (see INTERNATIONAL).Next day, outright censorship began: foreign radiomen lost their broadcasting privileges, and 27 foreign publications (including TIME, LIFE, the Chicago Tribune, the London Daily Mail and Daily Mirror) were banned from the country...
...Tune. The bill would not answer all objections to ERP. Bob Taft still thought the size of the appropriation should be cut. Indiana's Homer Capehart wanted to handle all foreign aid through an international RFC. Nevada's George Malone was still laboring doggedly to kill ERP outright. House committeemen were still to be heard from...