Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fiat election, in which 49,600 workers at Italy's biggest plant overthrew ten years of Communist leadership (TIME, April 11), started a chain reaction. In the industrial north, the anti-Communist rebellion swept through plant after plant, winning elections outright in some, scoring big gains in others. At Milan's Officina Meccànica (truck bodies), the Communist vote plummeted from a secure 80% last year to a minority 37%. Most significant yet was last week's vote at the Falck steel works in Sesto San Giovanni, an industrial suburb of Milan known as Italy...
...sick industry, drastic cures have been proposed, from outright federal subsidies to local tax relief. e.g., Spokane has agreed to bail out its transit company with $53,000 yearly by lifting a street-use tax and snowplowing bus routes...
Laborite Leader Clement Attlee smoked his pipe and doodled while the right-wingers, led by Heir Apparent Herbert Morrison and Heir Apparent II Hugh Gaitskell, pressed for outright expulsion. But Clem Attlee, the man who had backed the disciplining of Bevan in the first place, pulled the pipe from his mouth and made a surprise proposal: postpone expulsion and set up a committee to inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan...
...Chinese poems of extraordinary beauty. Lime Woollen, Kohn understands how to emphasize a world without a shout from the singers or an unnecessary consonance. The percussive piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem is a half-bitter smile and shrug...
What is the role of allied foreign policy in relation to U.S. foreign policy? Allied nations can (and do) try to influence the making and changing of U.S. decisions. But can they soundly reject U.S. leadership outright...