Word: outright
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McClory, Nixon's defiance of the subpoenas was an outright infringement of the Constitution, which accords the House of Representatives the sole power of impeachment. "Now, if you ever saw an example of stonewalling," said McClory, "the prime example is right there." Democrat Seiberling declared that "without the power to investigate, the impeachment power is meaningless." Several other Democrats noted that since the Supreme Court had struck down Nixon's claim of absolute Executive privilege to withhold tapes from Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski, he had no valid claim to keep them from the Judiciary Committee...
...office in 1968 as a follower of George Wallace, is in some trouble. His constituency, which includes everything from Ku Klux Klansmen to liberal black college professors, went 66% for Nixon in 1972. As District Representative Andy Dearman said in Flowers' Tuscaloosa office: "No one has expressed outright anger at the vote, but many have expressed displeasure." Of the 353 letters received by Democrat Flowers' office since the vote, almost two-thirds have condemned his position...
...killing dozens of people in Texas and Mexico. Ignacio Cuevas, 42, was serving a 45-year stretch. Rudolfo Dominguez, 27, had been sentenced to 15 years. Death was very much on their minds-then" hostages' death, their own, anybody's. Repeatedly, they threatened to shoot their captives outright, with the pistols they had somehow smuggled into the prison, or blow them up, with bombs fashioned from chemistry sets in the library...
...child misbehaved, for example, Von Hilsheimer would sometimes gather the students together to declare him "morally dead"; then, concocting his own version of reality therapy (which denies the importance of past traumas and encourages a patient to cope outright with his current dilemma), Von Hilsheimer and the students would force the youth to dig himself a grave and lie in it overnight. "I think it is a beautiful symbolic thing for the kids to go through," he explained. "It's a way of forcing them to look at themselves." At other times he would shackle the child, jolt...
...Perhaps none of these issues will scare anybody, but the supportive evidence should. Overpopultion in developing countries seems most assuredly to be heading toward a grim Malthusian reckoning: death from starvation and malnutrition will be the only checks on these peoples' birth rates. In those countries which are not outright dictatorships, only a kind of militaristic socialism will be able to enforce a strict birth-control...