Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precisely this kind of petty deception and, on occasion, even the outright denial of the obvious, that has given rise to what the Washington press corps calls the President's "credibility gap." During the airline strike, for example, Johnson blandly assured the nation that Administration-backed settlement terms were within the Government's wage-price guidelines, when in fact they grossly exceeded them. A few days before L.BJ. announced his proposals to combat inflation and tight money, he stoutly denied that he was planning any such action-though his economic advisers had been working for days to formulate...
With this exchange, the bill was clearly doomed. Against a backdrop of Negro-incited violence in the cities, the public showed little enthusiasm for new ventures into civil rights-and outright antipathy to the bill's open-housing section. What is disturbing the nation, in Dirksen's phrase, is "conduct, not color." Indeed, the Administration itself had lobbied only halfheartedly for the measure. As a result, its Senate supporters failed last week by ten votes to get the two-thirds majority needed to stop a filibuster against it by imposing cloture. In a last, hopeless attempt to resuscitate...
...right when the driver's door is opened, thus allowing him to slide out more easily. The other new car is Chevrolet's Camaro, a sports car that competes directly with the Mustang in its own price range. Originally called Panther, Camaro is almost an outright imitation of the Mustang, from its simple grille to its squat tail. Chevrolet says that the name is French, means "comrade" or "pal." Sniping competitors note that versions of the word also appear in Spanish. One of them means "shrimp" and another translates as "loose bowels...
...cottage and the inevitable pets: a dopey turtle that scrapes tediously around the living room, a hoarse parrot that mindlessly advises visitors to "take a blue crayon and color the sky." Then she lays a few cards on the table: she works in a feed store, owns her house outright, has 200,000 lire in the bank. Adolfo follows suit: he works in a bookstore and is dead broke...
Ottaviani's office will let the abbé defend himself at a hearing. While the order against his work amounted to a stamp Of disapproval, it was not-as probably would have been the case before Vatican II-outright condemnation...