Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such difficulties have led to many relationships that stop a few steps short of outright merger. Common Market companies have entered into more than 30,000 marketing and manufacturing agreements. The Netherlands' Philips and Germany's Siemens jointly make and market phonograph records; Germany's Bleyle and France's Gillier sell their woolens in each other's stores...
...Bruins captured only three firsts in the one-sided match, and one of those, the dive, was an outright gift by Crimson coach Bill Brooks, who declined to submit an entry in the event...
Veterans say that most Americans in the field go through almost the same emotional pattern. First comes two months of gung-ho spirit, then four months during which their sense of humor keeps them going, followed by five months of growing exasperation and often outright disgust, and one month of relief because the one-year tour of duty is coming to an end. But for all that, the average U.S. soldier while on duty in Viet Nam retains the basic condition of good morale-the continued desire to fight. There is little illusion about the enormity of the task...
...steadily growing international legion of Georgette Heyer addicts, everything is as clear as Madeira. She is resorting again to the elegant Regency slang in which she has indefatigably chronicled the goings on of blooded Britons in the age when old King George III was too dotty to rule outright and his son, the Prince Regent, had not yet acceded to the title as George IV. What the butler means, obviously, is that his Lordship, while putting away a lot of the stuff, has been seldom if ever drunk...
Monday's Supreme Court ruling that congressional districts must be approximately equal in population drew a reaction from faculty members varying from outright approval to cautious skepticism...