Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with anger and revulsion to accounts of seduction. But, they insist-and this is where they differ most markedly from many other psychiatrists-that sexual deviation is invariably the result of seduction as they broadly define it, ranging from lascivious permissiveness when a child engages in sexual stimulation to outright coercion...
...ignored their warnings that sodium bicarbonate, the kitchen's ever-present help in time of heartburn, may cause alkali poisoning and dangerous gaseous distention of the stomach. But it remained for Glasgow's Dr. Andrew Greig Melrose to report, in the Scottish Medical Journal, a case of outright addiction to bicarb, an addiction so intense that the victim suffered severe withdrawal sickness when taken off the stuff...
...singing career by insisting that Pianist Cole sing as well as play Sweet Lorraine. Penniless in Hollywood during the war, he put words and music to a parable he once heard in his father's church. The song: Straighten Up and Fly Right. Though he sold it outright for $50, it led to his first Capitol Records disk and helped make his voice one of the most familiar in the land...
...land had been so thoroughly redistributed that 1,325,000 peasant families now had roughly one-fifth of an acre apiece-a painful contrast to free South Viet Nam, heavily U.S.-subsidized, where any peasant can get seven acres of fertile ground from the government for the asking. Outright rebellion flared in the predominantly Catholic province of Nghean (TIME, Nov. 26), and China's Premier Chou En-lai paid a hurried trip to Hanoi, obviously on a troubleshooting errand like the Russians' trips to Warsaw and Budapest at about the same time. To the Central Committee, Truong confessed...
Fabulous Offer. In 1936 Collector Gulbenkian lent 30 of his finest paintings to London's National Gallery, later offered the gallery all the paintings as an outright gift on condition that they be housed separately, not spread thin among the museum's other masterpieces. The offer was refused. So, soon after the war, Gulbenkian packed up his 30 pictures, added ten more masterpieces to make the parcel even more attractive, and shipped it all to Washington's National Gallery, on a loan basis...