Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only cooperative houses now in Cambridge are those in which individual apartments are owned outright, at costs up to $40,000. In a management cooperative, on the other hand, tenants purchase capital stock in a specially set up corporation, and collectively own the apartment house. Tenants reduce the cost of rental by a "mortgage" down payment, and the cost of operation is less because it involves no profit for a realtor...
Having missed many a chance to win votes for his party in three key states, the President headed for California, where his tour, he said, would become "outright political...
...Moslems of every political stripe must be free to run for office, excepting only active members of the rebel F.L.N. with criminal charges against them. Even candidates who favor outright Algerian independence must be allowed...
...word, hailed the vote as a "mandate" for the Gray Plan. But Harry Byrd interpreted it as a mandate for something much tougher. He promptly warned the legislature to go slow in enacting the Gray Plan's provisions. In February, Byrd laid down the law with an outright demand for "massive resistance" against any sort of integration. And in July, Byrd met secretly in Washington with top organization lieutenants to chart the course for a massive resistance program that-in the name of states' rights-would rip all authority out of the hands of local communities and arrogate...
Play Your Hunch (NBC) pits a pair of husband-and-wife teams against each other in an outright guessing game. The brain twisters include such pithy problems as which of three baby pictures is that of Jayne Mansfield, or who of three turbaned men is bald. Televiewers who play the right hunch will soon guess which knob is marked...