Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the book reviewing done in the past century was outright puffery. Fields was especially adept at planting puffs. He would write reviews himself and mail them to editors ("It may serve your tired brain some purpose. No one need know that I wrote it"), or he would ease a reviewer's critical burden by explaining that "the moral of the story lies at the bottom of page 168." Journals in which Fields advertised were expected to discover rare qualities in Fields's authors, but on one notable occasion the system of back-scratching broke down...
...right about this; and you would be right, too, except that the present set of paristal rules is now producing a succession of serious violations, and a system of attitudes about sexual behavior which are not only distressing in themselves but promise to move us closer and closer to outright scandal. So we reach a point where we must discuss parietal rules in moral terms...
...determined to maintain diplomatic relations with Indonesia despite Sukarno's provocations. Though Sukarno backed down slightly and restored phone and telegraph communications with Malaysia, Britain's military headquarters in the Far East were making full preparations to fight if Sukarno carried his threats to the point of outright combat...
...measure would provide $1.5 billion over the next five years for construction of college classrooms at four-year colleges, $500 million of the money will be in outright grants, the rest in low-interest loans...
...vigilant officers has contrived to keep afloat for these 150 years past, and to overawe their neighbors merely by her bulk and appearance; but whenever an insufficient man happens to have the command upon deck, adieu to the discipline and safety of the ship. She may perhaps not sink outright; she may drift some time as a wreck, and will then be dashed to pieces on the shore; but she can never be rebuilt on the old bottom...