Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through five weeks of debate and backroom maneuvering, the Israelis strove desperately to stave off the vote. Premier David Ben-Gurion denied outright that the raiders were Israeli soldiers, as alleged by the U.N. truce supervision chief, Denmark's Major General Vagn Bennike...
...fact, while he will not outright admit to disproving it, the somewhat close mouthed Birch does confess that he and his researchers have made the theory that convection current beneath the earth's surface are related to the mountains, "highly improbably...
Church attendance, although not forbidden outright, has been cleverly discouraged. "Even when church services are permitted," says Merwin, "the church buildings are used for political meetings or for barracks or granaries...
...showed that the government manages music halls, theater-ticket agencies, a drugstore, a vineyard. It is the nation's biggest ship owner, banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government will rack up a deficit of $137 million this year...
...Smile." Arthur Murray himself owns only one dance studio outright (in Manhattan), but he keeps a firm hand on the others under franchise, takes 10% of their gross. His instructors, who get $55 to $100 a week, go through a month's training period before getting an arm around a customer, are carefully briefed on the best techniques. "You are not dressed for work until you put on a smile!" cautions an instruction pamphlet. "Everyone should use a deodorant! Perfume does not conceal...