Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that something had suddenly gone wrong with the President's slow, careful program of withdrawal. Only the week before, he announced that he would bring home 150,000 more U.S. troops over the next year. What happened in the interval to change Nixon's tone from cool confidence to outright alarm...
...could incorporate some of the more basic advances in modern acoustics which were neglected when the City of Boston built the John J. Hines Memorial (alias War Memorial) auditorium. The next logical step would be some sort of assistance to an opera company, either in the form of an outright grant to some established private group, like the Boston Opera Company, or, more preferably, the founding of an official state opera, which would reside in Boston and perform a full season. Adequate financial support, and several years of development, would assure that the company would grow to national stature...
...barely above January's six-year low of 744. Many stocks seemed "oversold," but few investors as yet had the nerve or confidence to buy. The market's decline partly reflected investors' anxiety about which of several turns the economy may be taking: toward outright recession, possibly combined with continued inflation; toward moderate growth and a gradual simmering down of price rises; or toward what is coming to be called "inflationary stagnation...
...this criticism is seldom displayed as outright opposition to the government. Disapproval of or disappointment with government policy has not been overwhelmingly vocal since the 67 war and has never been effectively organized...
...ever realizing how it all came about. The style and general format of the novel are easy and without interruption; yet somehow, amid the general flow of things, realities are contorted, perspectives tiltcrazily, and the whole tone of the novel can shuttle back and forth from snide humor to outright malevolence. "All is jive," says Mr. Jiveass Nigger, and from the beginning of the book until its end, you're never quite sure if you might not just be the one who's being jived...