Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asked why selective-service rejects should not be obligated to share in civil-defense programs, Hershey replied that he did not oppose a "wider range of training." But he added that inducting men for "any but military service has to be looked upon very suspiciously." Hershey rejected outright a suggestion by Committee Chairman Lucius Mendel Rivers of South Carolina that the induction-age ceiling be lowered from 26; in fact, he favors raising the ceiling to include single men and childless husbands...
...basic issues that divide Europe. Not that the ministers were opposed to a settlement: they encouraged all "initiatives" of any NATO nation to improve East-West relationships. At the same time, however, even Couve de Murville agreed with Secretary of State Rusk that it is still too early for outright accommodation between the two opposing blocs. There is an obvious interest in moving toward peace with Russia, said Rusk, but "the main ingredient is our own solidarity." For one thing, the West itself was not yet united on the terms for a settlement in Europe. For another, NATO...
...COLLEGE TEACHING: "Once a visitor is able to penetrate the rather forbidding facade created by our dignified gowns and colorful hoods, he will find himself surrounded by frightening pockets of indifference, instability, and outright incompetence."-University of Cincinnati Law School Dean Claude R. Sowle at Kendall College...
Writing in 1924, Abraham Flexner in his book Medical Education, commented on the experience of most American medical students as follows: "They were grouped in fixed classes, the personnel of which was practically unchanged, except for outright losses due to failure, from year to year; they followed in fixed order, day by day, the same subjects, for the same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual...
...demand for change is growing. Outright abolition of the draft (as suggested in recent years by, of all people, Adlai Stevenson and Barry Goldwater) seems unrealistic. For. as General Hershey likes to put it: "I don't believe we will ever see the end of the draft in my lifetime or yours. We've never had peace since I started this job, even after the end of wars, and I don't see that kind of peace in the future...