Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reiterating its faith in the continued growth of the U.S. economy, the Administration last week came close to outright prediction that tax revenues, higher than estimated, plus careful cost-cutting, can wipe out the $1.7 billion federal deficit and balance the budget. After discussing proposed 1957 expenses with the President at Gettysburg, Budget Director Rowland Hughes told reporters that the Government's income should match its estimated $63 billion outgo, not only in 1957 but in the current fiscal year ending June...
...Outright gifts or subsidies for expensive equipment and radioactive materials for research departments...
...dressed as girls, chairs pulled out from under their prospective occupants, burlesque dialect and gestures, and even bad jokes. But Wilder has not forgotten the innovating spirit of his Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth days, either. Every main character in The Matchmaker has at least one outright soliloquy in which he steps up to the footlights and blatantly tells the audience his thoughts and motivations, and at the end each of them gives his own idea of the moral of the play. Far from being awkward, Wilder's soliloquys present humor with a timing and characterization that...
...committee, while concluding that there is no "sound" way of making outright grants to individual, flood victims, specifically recommended that the state raise and disburse...
...Time for Sergeants follows a classic pattern of rube-conquers-all, but it follows it less for satiric than for outright comic ends. Will is not just the simpleton who confounds the sages; he is also the good boy who can lick all the bad ones, the farm boy who can drink city slickers under the table. With everything soundly proceeding at a comic-strip level, No Time for Sergeants becomes a fine, boisterous exercise in sustained improbability, in morning-fresh outrageousness. It has a kind of healthy, folkish madness: it makes the Air Force seem like something personally invented...