Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Long Night. At midnight Mendes asked a vote on the treaty provisions which authorized German rearmament and admission to the Western European Union. The M.R.P. demanded a recess. For three hours Mendes confidently sat on the front bench scanning newspapers while the M.R.P. conferred. de Menthon argued for an outright vote against, instead of abstention. Bidault agreed...
...idea of abolishing public schools in order to get around the U.S. Supreme Court's decision against segregation. Out of 135,000 ballots cast, two out of three were in favor of a drastic constitutional amendment that will empower the legislature to: 1) abolish the public schools outright by a two-thirds vote; 2) pass a law by majority vote to enable counties and school districts to abolish their schools themselves; 3) sell, rent or lease school buildings to private corporations; 4) pay students' tuition to what would then be private, segregated schools...
...officials, 16 of whom were cited for offenses ranging from incompetence to fraud, had "wholly ignored" congressional admonitions to base mortgages strictly on actual cost estimates. Some had actually worked for builders on the side, were wined and dined, given "girl parties," and outright bribes. Worst culprit: Assistant FHA Commissioner Clyde L. Powell, 58, boss of the rental-housing program since 1942, who is now serving a one-year jail sentence for refusing to answer a grand jury's questions. One architect said that he paid Powell a $10,000 bribe, and Powell's bank statements showed deposits...
Moscow has now arrived at the conclusion that for a time extension of the Soviet system over new lands and nations must come to a halt because of the growing power of the non-Soviet world. A middle road between the extremes of formal sovereignty and outright annexation will be found, if only in order to maintain votes...
Elected a federal Deputy in 1934, Café Filho, who had already turned against Vargas, became his roughest congressional critic. When Vargas set up an outright dictatorship in 1937, Café Filho fled to Argentina. As the price of a promise that he would not be molested if he returned to Brazil, Café Filho had to agree to refrain from all political activities. He got a job with a bus company, and spent the following seven years as a white-collar worker...