Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a series of incidents including an outright clash between a College undergraduate and a Tufts student over the right to use a book stall, Lamont officials have decided to check persons entering the library for bursar's cards...
...This is a government of laws, not of men" he quoted. Because the Commonwealth can prosecute only according to the existing statute concerning outright bribes, it has little jurisdiction in the realm of political ethics. McCormack felt that a code of ethics, such as the one presently under consideration by a special state committee, might be more to the point. If political evil were clearly and legally defined, McCormack predicted, there surely would be less corruption. Graft could no longer be genial...
...Matthews fell into the trap that everywhere awaits the unwary reporter: he let emotional bias suspend his judgment. In his eyes. Castro became a hero of whom Matthews can still write today, as he does in The Cuban Story: "I could never bring myself to condemn Fidel Castro outright for what he has done ... I see what is good about [the revolution], how important it is. and I retain my sympathy, and. in many respects, admiration for Fidel Castro...
Even old Henry Ford, accustomed as he was to thinking big, would have been impressed by his grandson's latest feat. In one of the largest industrial mergers in U.S. history, Ford Motor Co. last week proposed to buy outright control of Philadelphia's Philco Corp. Terms: one share of Ford for each 4½ shares of Philco common, $101.50 in Ford common (plus cash equal to accrued dividends) for each share of Philco preferred. Estimated cost to Ford: $110 to $120 million...
...even Nehru could bring himself to an outright condemnation of Khrushchev's new tests. Instead, the conference blandly urged that "all countries" resume the moratorium. But Nehru did succeed in getting the delegates to approve a special message addressed to both Kennedy and Khrushchev, urging immediate summit talks between the Big Two, because of the "deterioration of the international situation and the possibility of war which jeopardizes humanity...