Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain where it came from. A chemical engineer from New York knows how the one-night stand can go these days: on a business trip a beautiful woman invited him up to her room. He went, but was troubled by thoughts of herpes sores. He asked the lady outright. Her denial was not enough; he was impotent. "I wanted to go through with it," he confided to a friend, "but my body wouldn't respond...
Kubacki, who led the Crimson to its first outright Ivy League title in 1975, is currently the athletic director and football coach at Middlesex School in Concord...
...abandoned children wander, uncomprehending and terrified; thick black smoke distorts once beautiful skylines. Such are the results of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, a foray that has left the Jewish state seemingly, more isolated than ever before. For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel is the outright initiator of a conflict designed to garner security, not survival...
...inability of the nation's elected officials to come to grips in an effective way with the country's economic woes is causing widespread dismay that could soon enough begin turning into outright cynicism. Both the House and the Senate last week passed a budget resolution purporting to hold down 1983 deficit spending to no more than $103.9 billion, but not even the legislators seemed to believe in what they were doing. Admitted New York's Democratic Congressman Theodore Weiss: "It's a package wrapped in deceit, based on phony figures, erroneous assumptions and questionable projections...
Some dark clouds have begun to shadow even one of the few consistently bright spots in the economy: the steady wind-down in inflation. The inflation rate fell from 12% a year on the day that Reagan took office to outright deflation during March, when the purchasing power of the dollar actually inched fractionally upward. But last week consumer prices, which rose at an average annual rate of less than 2% in the first four months of the year, suddenly shot back up in May to a compound annual rate of 12.7%, pushed by increases in housing, food and energy...