Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, Ne Win's mailed fist had put the government's house in order, and he chivalrously handed power back to a re-elected U Nu. Once again, U Nu proved too retiring for the task, and in 1962 Ne Win took over again, this time by outright coup. The general has been giving the orders solo ever since, while U Nu has languished in a military rest camp near Rangoon...
...millions who watched the old man recite The Gift Outright at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, or learned to love Mending Wall or After Apple-Picking in their school days, Robert Frost was the serene, supremely benevolent country poet. A generation of interviewers had gorged themselves on his folksy humor and humble denims, on that familiar shock of untutored hair, those earthy accounts of his early scrabbling for a living from his New Hampshire poultry farm. Yet Frost also used to say: "I'm liable to tell you anything. Trust me in the poetry...
...since July, when the 324B became the first northern division to infiltrate across the narrow Demilitarized Zone-and, thanks to quick Marine action, the first northern division to be driven back across the border of the DMZ. In the beginning, according to U.S. intelligence reports, the Communists planned an outright invasion of the border province of Quang Tri. But the aggressive probing of Operations Hastings and Prairie has apparently thrown Hanoi's timing off. In the past month, more and more Marines have been shifted northward to the immediate area of the DMZ; last week, U.S. strength...
...STUDENT OPPORTUNITY GRANTS. These are outright gifts, ranging from $200 to $800 per student per year, given by colleges as they see fit to needy students. The money-$58 million this year-is helping 133,000 students this fall...
...widespread support for Boston School Committeewoman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks is the result of a vague popular resentment toward "unsettling change," not of outright racial bigotry, according to a study conducted by Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology...