Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project officials reported seven confirmed dead and 83 missing, and they feared there would be no other survivors. Said one worker who had luckily escaped: "The poor devils never had a chance. Those not killed outright must have frozen to death in a matter of hours." At a news conference in Geneva, Geologist Lombard said that the disaster had been "completely unpredictable...
...nothing really got coordinated; 2,000 steel plows lay rusting in Ethiopia, dams were built in a remote corner of Afghanistan, Asian potentates had fleets of cars bought with aid funds. This phase began to end in 1957 when President Eisenhower shifted the major emphasis of foreign aid from outright grants to development loans and investments. President Kennedy in 1961 created the Agency for International Development (AID) as a kind of holding company for all foreign operations, and later put his budget director, David E. Bell, in charge. Now Bell has served longer than any earlier aid boss...
...size of a Dictaphone, they can be rented from American Telephone & Telegraph and other phone companies for about $25 monthly or be purchased outright from Robosonics Inc., the largest-selling private manufacturer, and R.S.V.P., its West Coast rival, for about $400 and up, depending on the number of frills. Robosonics' latest is a $700 version which will take up to six hours of messages, aimed at firms like meat wholesalers, who can thus collect overnight orders. R.S.V.P. is bringing out a model which allows the owner to call in and change his own recorded message. Tentative price...
...illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence will grow in outright victory of Negro candidates in constituencies where Negroes are a majority, in balance-of-power situations elsewhere, in the minds of vote-hungry politicians everywhere, in political combination with the majority of whites, who wish the Negro well...
...that two-thirds of the first 50 applicants could neither read nor write. They were enrolled. It was a far cry from the days when Negro college graduates were contemptuously rejected by ill-educated Southern registrars for imagined failure to interpret a fine constitutional point. Surprisingly, there was little outright protest against and no overt interference with last week's registration effort. On the steps of Selma's courthouse, Sheriff Clark glowered across the square at the crowds of Negroes and snarled, "I'm nauseated." Selma's Circuit Judge James Hare, a plantation-bred racist, dolefully...