Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stop East Texans from pumping oil out of their wells faster than U.S. consumers could use it that Congress in 1935 passed the Connally Hot Oil Act.* Last week, state investigators-with 30 Texas Rangers on hand to protect them from reprisals-were turning up case after case of outright piracy in the East Texas field. It was done with slanted wells, which enable greedy independent oil operators to suck the oil out of their neighbors' pools...
Differences of purpose and opinion are reflected in the conflicting types of recent scientific General Education courses. Eight courses have been offered in the last few years. Some are fixtures and some alternate, so that five or six are available in any one year. Some are outright substitutes for courses that were once given as elementary work for concentrators within Departments; some exist side by side with similar elementary courses; some offer a collation of material drawn from several disciplines, a conglomeration not to be found in the curriculum of any single course or Department...
When Morris failed to appear for departmental questioning about his relations with Estes, Secretary Freeman fired him outright...
Communists & Catholics. Many Brazilians fear that it is only a matter of time before simmering discontent boils over into outright revolution. In 1955 Francisco Juliāo, a youthful, self-styled Marxist messiah, founded the Northeast's first peasant league. Today there are 98 peasant leagues in six states, some Marxist, others not; they have 40,000 members and uncounted sympathizers, have taken over 12,350 acres of rich coastal land, have fought pitched battles with the landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution...
Although the Tchaikovsky Competition is open to applicants up to the age of 32, Ashkenazy seemed an outright ringer-an obvious hedge against another talented foreigner's running off with the prize. Only 24, he was already far more seasoned in the concert hall than most of the contest's applicants. But, as it turned out, the home-town hero was no shoo...