Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they are looking for is sober courage, sober calculation. The U.S. performance shows fluctuating courage, fluctuating calculations. To politically wise Italians, the indecisive U.S. attitude toward Communist China is worse than either outright rejection or acceptance, for it looks as if the U.S. is not sure of its political judgment...
...Accused Communist China of "aggression, outright and naked," but was prepared later to call it simply "intervention" for United Nations purposes (see INTERNATIONAL...
...damn bomb. Why do we always have to wait until someone swats us in the puss?" In Vancouver, the News-Herald took a straw poll, reported two-to-one sentiment against dropping the bomb now. In Quebec, newspapers condemned the bomb as immoral, but the province's outright pacifism of World War II seemed to be gone. If there was a pattern at all, the Canadian tendency was to seek a scapegoat; more often than not it turned out to be U.S. leadership. Many newspapers across the nation splashed the news that Prime Minister Attlee was flying to Washington...
...U.S.S.R. proposed outright independence for Eritrea. Poland plumped for independence in three years, Pakistan in two. Iraq wanted an Eritrean...
Perhaps the most outright and complete change made by the Administration from the Council draft is the substitution of this rule, "Members must be students in Harvard University," for this one, "Members must be students in Harvard University or Radcliffe College." Aside from the point that Harvard groups should have the right to choose their own criteria for membership so long as a majority of their members are Harvard students, the elimination of Radcliffe membership altogether is especially ridiculous...