Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business. One week after taking office and ten days after the Sandy Saddler-Willie Pep featherweight brawl, nine rounds of butting, thumbing and gouging (TIME, Oct. 8), Commissioner Robert Christenberry called in both fighters and swung a one-two punch. He revoked Pep's New York boxing license outright and handed Champion Saddler an indefinite suspension...
...been running such expose articles for over a year now. One of the first was "That Man Budenz" in the November 1950 issue, describing the virtues of professional ex-Communist Louis Budenz. Unfortunately columnist Joseph Alsop has just turned up evidence showing Budenz to be little less than an outright liar under oath...
...farmers turned out in their Sunday best to hear the report explained, and as soon as it was over, began biting the hand that subsidizes them, with heated protests against "Socialism" and Government "interference." No one protested against interference in the form of price supports. It was outright subsidies for soil improvement-and the thought of the taxes they come from-that irked the solid farmers in Michigan's bean-growing district...
...visas given only to foreign government officials. British courts have officially ruled that Tassmen have diplomatic immunity, since Tass is an agency of the Soviet state. Time after time, Tassmen have shown that they are not primarily interested in news, but in filing special intelligence reports or engaging in outright espionage. Examples: ¶Under the cover name of "Martin," Tass "Correspondent" Nicolai Zheivinov was a member of Canada's atomic spy ring, uncovered in 1945. He skipped home to Russia to avoid arrest. ¶In Tokyo, Tassman Evgeny Egorov has never been known to turn in a story...
...battle it has been waging for years. Subject: men's summer wear-too many, too heavy and too hot. Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with any heartless females and etiquette fanatics who'd still like to see us looking like boiled lobsters...