Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daoud, took over and continued the tough stuff. Secret police snooped everywhere; the press was heavily censored. After Daoud quarreled with his finance minister, that official and his family disappeared. Balding, haughty and highhanded, Daoud alienated Afghanistan's slowly developing intellectual class and won the distaste-if not outright dislike-of the nation's 13 million poverty-stricken subjects...
...London could do to maintain law and order, let alone grant independence. Under rabble-rousing Marxist Premier Cheddi Jagan, British Guiana's 295,000 East Indians and 190,000 Negroes were engaged in a vicious racial feud that only the presence of British troops prevented from becoming outright civil war. Then in new elections last December, Negro Attorney Forbes Burnham came to power, formed a coalition government, and put the colony back on the road to progress...
...results are hardly noticeable. In spite of U.S. sanctions, Cuba and Red China carry on. South Africa hardly realizes that it is being boycotted by 46 nations that are incensed at apartheid. The urge to trade is so strong that it usually can be dulled effectively only by outright war. Money talks louder than the flag...
...king. Nine sound stages sound the alert when his footfall is heard; five companies now shooting television series await his Brooklynese benediction. He controls three of TV's top shows: Corner Pyle, Andy Griffith and Dick Van Dyke. I Spy, a rising comedy-adventure show, he owns outright. Yesterday, however, it was a different story. Producer Sheldon Leonard's climb has largely been from rags to rags; the riches are a very new addition...
...surprise that he had experienced a dramatic loss of desire for alcohol. Fascinated by the unexpected side effect, Dr. Taylor asked about the reactions of 53 other patients who drank. Most reported similar results. Not only did desire for alcohol decrease, but metronidazole also lowered alcoholic tolerance, sometimes caused outright aversion and induced a feeling of well-being for those cutting down or going on the wagon altogether...