Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York University English major, was earning $4,160 annually v. Van Doren's $4,400 a year as an English instructor at Columbia. Together, they answered thousands of fan letters (mostly handout entreaties) that swamped Van Doren. Along the way, the couple chivalrously rejected a passel of outright marriage proposals. Another proposal-made by Van Doren himself-was accepted. In the Virgin Islands last week, Charles Van Doren, 31, answered one more question. His response ("I do") won him 1) Geraldine, 2) a tax saving of around $20,000, 3) a mother-in-law who cherishes...
...NEWSWEEK ED.: This might be tough to make a real Easter Feature out of, unless the Council report gives religion the benefit of every doubt, and even gives some benefits outright. Does...
...suicide of Canadian Ambassador to Egypt Herbert Norman (see HEMISPHERE); Ike tried to calm the Canadian uproar with words of sympathy. Nettling him also was continued congressional delay in an area where presidential prestige was at stake. After last autumn's Hungarian uprising, the President made outright and definite commitments to secure regular refugee status for about 25,000 Hungarians admitted to the U.S. as parolees. Warned Ike last week: "We have about exhausted the possibilities of the parolee method, and without some congressional action, we will certainly be handicapped." But on the mechanics of obtaining faster congressional action...
...which a maximum of six different sounds can be extracted; and for maybe a quarter of an hour they sawed back and forth on these same notes. There are at least three legitimate reactions on the listener's part: (1) he can try to stifle his snickers or laugh outright; (2) he can lapse into an utterly numbed state, as though packed in ice; or (3) he can get up and leave. Anyone who takes this stuff seriously is being hood-winked...
...Kennedy proclaimed that it would be a brutal and dangerous policy for the U.S. to turn down the Polish request. The prospect: either a comparatively modest (up to $40 million) sale of agricultural surpluses for zlotys-or, if the Administration asks for changes in the Battle Act (which bars outright aid to countries trading in war materials with Russia), a big battle in Congress...