Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Albie Cullen, who did an excellent job last week, will be at right half.Coach JOHN YOVICSIN counters a reporter's questions after the varsity's light pre-game practice yesterday afternoon. Looking forward to this afternoon's contest with Bucknell at Soldiers Field, he refused to make an outright prediction of victory, though his team is a 12-point favorite. In an attempt at equanimity, he said simply, "Our sights are set on victory. The game will be won in the line...
...find almost any animal in the system. It's like Noah's ark." The pervasive U.S. cathedral is the "comprehensive" high school, which sends some of its students to college and gives the rest marketable skills. But hundreds of schools are "special." New York City has outright detention camps for delinquents-and it also has the exquisitely superior Bronx High School of Science (TIME, May 5, 1958). Some urban schools teach 90% of their students to be auto mechanics and beauticians. Some suburban schools send 90% of their students to top colleges...
...usual, Hollywood fired back in all directions. Sounding as if any criticism amounted to outright censorship, Columbia Vice President Sam Briskin pulled the trigger before he even saw the enemy. No individual or group, he cried, has a right to censor the industry. "The public will soon enough tell us what they want and don't want...
...happened to Stevenson.' " And then the article goes on talking about Humphrey being a New Dealer as if my mental growth had stopped about 1936. That is sufficiently insulting, but I can take that since it is a matter of opinion. However, the quotation is a matter of outright distortion and I do object...
...gives relief from pain, and usually longer life, to 60% of patients with cancer of the lung, breast, ovary or prostate, as well as leukemia and Hodgkin's disease. From this has come a surge of confidence that increasingly potent drugs can be found that eventually will effect outright cures. So great is this confidence that the Cancer Chemotherapy National Service Center now gets the biggest single bite ($23 million) of NCI's budget, with $18 million going out in grants and contracts for development and screening of new drugs. In addition, almost $4,000,000 goes...