Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...powerful as Juan Perón is in Argentina, he has not dared to shut down critical La Prensa (circ. 400,000) outright. But he has used the newsprint rationing to take paper from La Prensa and give it to his friends. He also exercises a censorship on outgoing cables, has delayed stories and even arrested U.S. newsmen. Fortnight ago, responding to U.S. criticism, Perón kicked out his press purger, José Emilio Visca (TIME, June 12) ; but it was too soon to say whether that represented a change of policy or just a change of faces...
...with books made into plays (The Member of the Wedding, The Innocents, The Happy Time, Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep) with plays and books made into musicals (Regina, Lost in the Stars, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'). Making its chairs out of sofas rather than building them outright, Broadway still scorned the idea that the play's the thing and whooped up the production...
Taking the negative, Lichauco and Tyson maintained that while government regulation is necessary, outright government ownership would be injurious...
...granted a reprieve: a piddling 120 tons, enough for two or three days. This week, another skimpy allotment would probably be doled out. Perhaps the Peron regime felt that, in killing off an institution that the outside world had learned to honor, slow starvation might seem more genteel than outright strangulation...
...high points of the pilgrimage were the vigils in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But by the third vigil, familiarity had so far bred irreverence in some of the company that they desecrated the shrine outright-bargaining with the Moslem merchants, "swilling [strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics...