Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response of others has ranged from tacit acceptance to outright hostility...
Privately, a Bay Area radio commentator joked: "The fact Carter thinks about it but doesn't do anything just goes to show he isn't a man of action." But ridicule is as menacing to a candidate as outright condemnation, and Carter appears to be reaping his share of it without having persuaded the Playboy readership that he is anything but square. As one observer put it, "If you are not one of the boys-and Carter is not -then do not try to be." Rosalynn Carter's own reaction to what her husband had said somehow...
Some of the changes they found in their classmates are outright amazing. A high school quarterback is now a masseur in Hollywood, preaching the tenets of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. A student whom everyone else describes as totally lacking in social graces (each biography includes short descriptions of the subject by other people described in the book) lived at the time the book was put together on a small island in Micronesia. A woman who told Time, "You can't marry anyone important without going to college" is now a criminal prosecutor. Another woman, described by her classmate...
Campbell said "we really looked good most of the way through," but added "we didn't run as a group--otherwise we would have won outright...
Delaware's system is modeled on horse racing's familiar parimutuel pool method. Bettors may buy into two weekly pools, called "Football Bonus" and "Touchdown." The Bonus requires picking winners outright in either seven or 14 N.F.L. games; in Touchdown, fans must hit the point spread correctly as well as predict the outcome of any three, four or five games. It will cost $20 to bet on the Football Bonus and $10 on Touchdown. The payoffs, which will be announced on Tuesdays following the weekend games, will amount to 45% of the total pool. At race tracks...