Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is in a period of danger and tension . . . If Berlin is ever in real trouble, I will be back one way or another-you can be sure of that." To the President, Clay was happy to report that Berlin showed every sign of surviving any onslaught short of outright siege. All the dire predictions that the war of nerves itself would paralyze the city had proved false. Savings accounts now totaled $350,750,000, a new record for West Berlin; twice as many tourists were flooding the city (many to view the ugly Wall itself) as came...
...Service has set up a system of checks and double checks. When a return first lands on the desk of a local collector, it is scanned for proper information and necessary enclosures. Minor errors are corrected, and marginal sarcasm from taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding and subtracting: almost 2,400,000 errors were...
...cardinals in Rome at the time pay a formal call on each of the new cardinals. Joseph Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis obligingly let Lees set up a temporary studio out front of his residence. This time, Photographer Lees got a record 27. Most were cordial; the only outright refusal came from crusty old Cardinal Ottavi-ani. "But Mr. Lees is photographing all the cardinals except you," an intermediary protested. "That's why I am Ottaviani!" replied His Eminence. In all, Photographer Lees (himself an Anglican) photographed 58 cardinals, some of whom have since died. One of his latest...
Frost is plainly delighted with his new role among men since he recited his "The Gift Outright" at the inauguration. "President Kennedy gave me a kind of status that nobody ever had before," he says...
...than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most cling tenaciously to the feudal system, which has given big landowners control of three-fourths of Iran's arable soil. Some 17,000 villages are owned outright by 160 wealthy families, and most of the nation's 16 million peasants are serfs...