Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offered a $10 million bonus (i.e., an outright gift) contingent on Iranian acceptance of the deal...
...scheme of classic simplicity. Starting two years ago, he offered to buy fellow officers' cars for 30% more than their value, and pay off in five months. Then he turned the cars into ready cash to invest in any likely venture (except the liquor and cigarette businesses and outright gambling; these were taboo, he said, under the Baptist principles he had been converted to while in flight training at Texas' Randolph Field in 1944). "I want to help humanity," he said. "Brazil is a country with very little money. With $500 you can't do much...
...reactions of Venice's art lovers ranged all the way from bewilderment to outright anger. "Art is a religion," growled 85-year-old Giuseppe Cherubim, dean of Venetian painters. "If it were up to me, I would do as Christ did when he kicked the profaners out of the temple. These paintings are made with water and idle talk." But idle or not, spatialism was the talk of Venice. During the first week, 4.000 crushed in for a look at the atomic fireballs and glowing pinholes...
...fund. Yet the next day, when they gathered in the courtroom, most of them faced for the first time with something more serious than a parking ticket, the University official was nowhere in sight. It seemed that the people who were in charge of University Hall were wavering between outright intervention and the traditional hands-off policy...
...sight was the hammer & sickle. The party firebrands were unnaturally mild: gone were the outright attacks on the Vatican, the sneers at liberals. The crucial municipal elections in some 2,000 communities in southern Italy were only two weeks away, and Rome, the greatest prize, lay within the Reds' grasp...