Word: outright
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Establishing Authority. Valuable as this assistance is, it is still the black officials themselves who must solve the problems of establishing their authority in a largely hostile white society. White intransigence to political integration takes many forms, ranging from defiance to outright intimidation. Black justices and constables are told by white offenders that "no nigger is going to tell us what to do." Moses Riddick, a member of the Board of Supervisors in Suffolk, Va., had a cross burned on his lawn after winning a primary. James Jolliff, a black constable in Wilkinson County, Miss., was arrested on charges...
Henry is down there." One who viewed Nixon's choice with outright misgiving, however, was Nuclear Physicist Ralph Lapp, who has often been at odds with the nation's scientific Establishment for its overinvolvement with the military. He argued that Kissinger is an unreconstructed hardliner...
...audience of about 75 listened to speakers from the HUC, the SFAC and the HPC defend their organizations' proposals for a reduction in the status of ROTC which would nonetheless allow the units to remain on campus in some form. Speakers from SDS argued that Harvard should abolish ROTC outright, while representatives of YPSL supported a student referendum on the question, as has been suggested by Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Social Relations...
Ryman's pictures are so unsettling, in fact, that some who see them for the first time laugh outright. He finally made his first commercial sale a month ago. Moreover, Ryman is no longer alone. For the past year or so, a dozen-odd other, younger artists have been producing pictures or sculptures that share his work's maddeningly artless look...
...Yale Ivy League championship. It would be the second in a row, don't forget, and that is something. Try to keep out of your mind the fact that Harvard is on the brink of winning its first outright Ivy title. That causes all sorts of anxiety...