Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief's Children. Beyond the outright murders and kidnapings is the evidence of acts even more grisly. Two years ago, a government force came upon 35 weeping women and children-and the bodies of 30 Vietnamese militiamen, throats cut, bodies disemboweled, and in many cases, emasculated. In Binh Dinh province, the Viet Cong beheaded a village chief and hacked off the arm of the chief's twelve-year-old daughter. They also took the chief's six-year-old son, laid a rifle across his bare back and fired it several times, leaving a twelve-inch scar...
Durham and Jones feel that the scarcity of Negroes in Western fiction and drama is becoming more a matter of historical ignorance than of outright prejudice. Consumers of Westerns have gotten soused to an all-white West that writers and directors are afraid to shock them with the truth. "They feel that the accurate representation of the Negro's role in the opening of the West would paradoxically seem to be a falsification of history...
...large-scale, computerized economies in steel existing in the U.S. and emerging in Europe's Common Market. Whatever the merit of the economic argument, it comes down to an insistence on merger and modernization-and even Labor partisans have to admit that those can be accomplished without outright government ownership...
...Outright rejection of the Soviet arms. Just before the freighter Fizik Lebedev was due to arrive last week, a vanguard of 17 Russian "technicians" flew in from Moscow. One was reportedly a general, and all seemed to have in mind a lengthy stay. Not so. Jomo called in the Soviet ambassador, told him to send back his tanks, guns and technicians. Later he explained to a press conference: "All the arms are old, secondhand, and would be of no use to the modern army of Kenya...
...Malaysia's ambassador to the United Nations then told the same forum that his country would continue to ask "active assistance" from Great Britain as long as "the Indonesians persist in their policy of agression, subversion, and outright military intervention...