Word: outright
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Officials charged with maintaining standards of conduct within the University, and amicable relations with the outside world, unavoidably deal in extremes. The undergraduates they see are disciplinary problems whose activities can "move us closer and closer to outright scandal." As Dean Monro, the College's chief disciplinary officer, wrote to the CRIMSON: "We are worried that the serious misbehavior of a few, and the general laxness in administration may bring the whole system into disrepute...
...these years, white politicians have been stealing our votes with false promises about what they would do for the Negro, or buying them outright." Her voice was indignant. "Now we have a black man running for office. Now we have a man we can trust. And now we must realize that our votes can have meaning--can change this city. Have you registered...
...enlisted in the French colonial army and was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant. He spent most of World War II serving under a Vichy colonial administration that did the bid ding of the Japanese invaders. But in March 1945, when Vichy surrendered the French colony to the Japanese outright, Minh joined a band of defiant, lower-echelon soldiers who organized heroic but futile resistance to the capitulation. Minh was taken prisoner by the Japanese, beaten and tortured by having most of his teeth yanked out. Minh is proud of his dental scars and today, when he neglects to wear his false...
...phrases which cried "Scandall" in Dean Monro's letter. His waving the bloody shirt triggered a press scandal which has confused discussion. Taken out of context, phrases like "license to use the college rooms for wild parties or for sexual intercourse," "unrestricted sexual behavior," and "closer and closer to outright scandal," are simply inflammatory. They suggest wrongly that wild parties run rampant and Harvard; Harvard students know how rare such parties...
...would have been safer for the President not to extend an invitation to Tito. It would not have been easy, since Tito was determined to visit Latin America and the UN anyway. Nevertheless, adequate precedent for a Presidential snub certainly existed. A proposed visit in 1957 was cancelled outright when protests unnerved Eisenhower. In 1960 Tito came to the UN and was awarded a chat with Ike at the Waldorf-Astoria but not an invitation to the White House...