Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary Charles Evers, who has sought to weld newly registered Negroes into an effective bloc-voting machine, said that in at least three heavily Negro Delta counties the elections amounted to "outright robbery," even though federal observers were on hand to monitor the balloting...
...future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance commissioners asked for-and got-pledges that most insurance companies would refrain from canceling ghetto policies for 90 days...
...choices are difficult. Unless Mao compromises and cools the Cultural Revolution or else thoroughly purges the army-if he still can-his troops are likely to remain uncertain and divided, making outright civil war an ever greater possibility...
...capricious behavior. Instead of concentrating around obvious examples of intelligent life on earth, such as large cities, they have been seen most often above deserts, farms and backwater towns. Their only reported communication has consisted of trite exchanges ("Don't be afraid") with relatively simple citizens or outright fanatics. But saucer buffs point out that man has studied the behavior of bees and learned their social order and "language" without even attempting to communicate directly with them...
...sponsored the Failing Newspaper Act. All the sponsors come from states in which there are newspapers with similar joint operating arrangements. The bill would permit such setups as long as one of the consolidating papers "appears unlikely to remain or become a financially sound publication"; the bill also permits outright merger in the same circumstances...