Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although two people from this district have already announced their candidacy as Taft delegates. Amory and Bolster have no; pledged themselves outright to any candidate...
...accept legitimate risks, they are not prepared to accept "illadvised steps of confiscation, nationalization and general suppression of private efforts . . . We are not willing to accept . . . risks created by arbitrary action by foreign governments in the form of administrative decrees and procedures . . . and unreasonable controls." Until this "grudging or outright hostile" attitude is changed, said Sloan, Point Four will remain little but a dream...
Britain will get steel-1,000,000 tons of it-in return for 20,000 tons of Malayan tin ore and 55 million pounds of Canadian aluminum. The U.S. will buy the tin outright at $1.18 a pound, f.o.b. Singapore. The aluminum will be sold by Canada*with the understanding that the same quantity will be sold back by mid-1953, when U.S. plants will have expanded enough to ease the present shortage...
...stability achieved by De Lattre's masterly maneuvering against Ho Chi Minh's Communist guerrillas would collapse the minute 200,000 Chinese Communist forces, now poised along the Indo-Chinese border, slipped over the line, either in an outright invasion or in the guise of "volunteers...
...Pacific Coast Conference formally adopted an "honor system" for policing its own backyard against the evils of subsidization. The men put on their honor: the college presidents. ¶ The Eastern College Athletic Conference (representing 89 colleges) met to consider a seven-point reform movement. Salient point: elimination of outright athletic scholarships. ¶ The Big Seven Conference not only banned bowl games but even agreed not to play in postseason tournaments (e.g., the Madison Square Garden basketball championships) sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. ¶Southern Conference officials voted to suspend the University of Maryland and Clemson for accepting bids...