Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the investigators had still to find any evidence of outright illegality in & around the RFC (though the Justice Department was busily reading the committee transcripts for evidence of perjury). But there was no doubt that the RFC had sunk a long way from the day when Jesse Jones could turn down a presidential suggestion on a loan with the remark: "Well, Boss, we are not running a charitable organization...
...point is that athletics, as a part of the "whole man" education, must be an end in themselves and not be operated either as a business or as a sideshow. Slight deviations from this standard may seem harmless, but there is no difference in intention between them and the outright purchase of football players. Even "traditional rivalries" are more expendable than education, and should not become the criteria of a football policy. If a traditional rival prefers the rarified air of the Top Ten to strict compliance with the rules, then it is useless for Harvard to attempt to keep...
...country at a "constitutional crisis." Claims made for "unlimited power to commit troops," said Taft, were "based on the most superficial arguments." Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry introduced a resolution which would prohibit the President from sending any troops to Europe, except for the purpose of repelling an outright attack or as part of the present garrison in Germany...
...Survival. A few hours after Chou's reply was in hand, Secretary of State Dean Acheson belabored it as "an outright rejection . . . still further evidence of [Red China's] contemptuous disregard of a worldwide demand for peace." Next day at Lake Success, Warren Austin summoned the free nations again to "united resolution" against aggression...
McCarthy sad that he brought up the bill again because the Federal Bureau of Investigation, at the recent trial of the eleven Communist leaders, claimed that professors advocated. Communism in their classrooms outright...