Word: outright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pool, steam rooms, an ultraviolet tanning room, even a private bowling alley. Moreover, Tanny's tactics have paid off. Since he gave up teaching junior high school and opened his first gym in 1935. sales have developed to $24 million a year. Tanny owns all his 80 clubs outright, together with six companies that service them with everything from exercise machines to health foods. He opened 35 new gyms last year at a cost of $3,750,000, hopes to open at least another 35 this year. His ultimate goal: 1,000 gyms in 300 cities. "Then...
...some muted misgivings. Many of the new fashions are simply too intricately detailed to mass-produce for spring sale in the U.S. Ricci, who introduced a "firecracker" silhouette, raised eyebrows with clutch-dresses without buttons down the shirt front, requiring two hands to keep them closed and prevent outright exposure above the waist-particularly since Ricci, to heighten the flat-chested flapper look, sent his mannequins out braless. Other houses, to achieve the same de-emphasis, went even farther, bound up their mannequins. "The American woman won't wear it that way," snorted Richard Blauner of New York...
...Lyndon Baines Johnson rose, raised his right hand and took the oath, administered, at his request, by his friend, mentor and fellow Texan, Sam Rayburn. Poet Robert Frost, his white hair fluttering in the wind, tried to read a newly written dedication to his famed poem, "The Gift Outright." But the bright sun blinded the old (86) New Englander, the wind whipped the paper in his hands, and he faltered. In the front row, Jackie Kennedy snapped up her head in concern. Lyndon Johnson leaped to shade Frost's paper with his hat, but it did no good...
...Such as we were we gave ourselves outright...
Although the University will not sell the Observatory land outright, Whitlock said, it is interested in exchanging it for the Burns playground. This playground riverfront area has long been considered as a second choice for the tenth House if the sale of the MTA's storage and switching yards along Boylston St. to the University fails to materialize...