Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ankara's new Parliament building, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles listened impassively. In theory, Dulles was present only as an "observer," because the U.S. is not a member, and to join the Baghdad grouping outright would antagonize Israel and Saudi Arabia. In reality, as the pact members recognized, only Dulles could save the meeting from failure and unseemly bickering. Britain's Selwyn Lloyd quickly made clear that Britain was sympathetic to the area members' pleas, but could offer no more help just now. It was up to Dulles...
...graduated," he says). El Azhari, who is an alumnus of the American University of Beirut, was financed largely with Egyptian money in the Sudan's last elections four years ago, is campaigning for "closer ties" with Egypt. His followers talk an anticolonial line that often slips over into outright anti-Westernism. El Azhari's main strength is in the cities in the north, while Khalil's speeches for water, cash and cotton go over well in the countryside...
Unlike the U.S., the Iron Curtain countries almost never make outright grants of money; instead, they specialize in barter deals and in loans payable at a modest 2½% to 3% over periods ranging up to 30 years. They have avoided demanding any overt political pledge, are ostensibly content to establish economic beachheads in country and government while demonstrating their respectability. The results, as observed by TIME correspondents around the world...
INDIA. Capitalizing on the desperate Indian drive to create a healthy, modern economy (TIME, Dec. 9), the Russians have set out to make India the showpiece of their Asian aid program. Out of the 1955 Bulganin-Khrushchev visit, India got one of Russia's rare outright gifts: $1,500,000 worth of agricultural equipment for a state-operated mechanized farm. More important, capital-starved India has also received $270 million in Soviet credits, nearly half of it earmarked for the Russian-designed Bhilai steel plant, which is being built under the supervision of Soviet technicians. Though it is only...
...propriety of outright refusal, a Montana practitioner took one extreme position: "A doctor's justified in refusing at any time he doesn't want to serve the patient. We're no more obligated to give service than is the grocer." A Michigan M.D. replied: "Nothing about medicine is as impressive to the layman as our willingness to get up and go out at midnight. Doctors must maintain their reputation on this score...