Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...residents of three large dormitories--Comstock, Moors, and Holmes--responded with apathy and outright hostility. In each, fewer than half the girls volunteered...
...Britain took Cyprus in "trust" from the declining Ottoman Empire and disregarded Cypriot demands for union with Greece on the grounds that the Sultan was still the suzerain. But after Turkey sided with the Central Powers at the start of World War I, Britain annexed the island outright. Under the British, a state of wary but peaceful coexistence developed between Turkish and Greek Cypriot. Greek landowners in the craggy Troodos Mountains leased their pastures to Turkish shepherds; Turkish shopkeepers bought oranges and carobs from Greek farmers. In the village taverna, Turk and Greek sat at separate tables, but spoke politely...
...emphasized that the President had promised only to review the complaints, not to grant any outright concessions. Secretary of the Treasury Dillon will meet in the near future with representatives of the railroads to discuss the grievances, which center around depreciation allowances permitted on tunnels and grading...
From this tiny seed, sown a full 13 years before Hitler's accession, sprang the most perverted, rapacious and successful propaganda apparatus the world had ever known. By 1936, after just three years in power, the Nazi party owned two-thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman...
Family Talk. System/360 emphasizes another dominant trend in computer design: versatility. The new IBM family has junior members that can be rented for $2,700 per month or bought outright for $133,000; its largest systems rent for $115,000 per month, cost $5,500,000 to buy. The family's largest and smallest members are now compatible; they use the same computer language and talk to each other at grisly speeds of many thousand characters per second. IBM intends that big and little ones will be connected in closely intimate groups, chattering like crazy 24 hours...