Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well say it... This is a steady climb to richer and more famous people." Throughout the narrative, she maintains an active antipathy for Dr. Tarnower, describing him at one point as "reptillian." After finding fault with his diet and his home, among other things, Mrs. Trilling asserts outright, "The bad aesthetics of a society matter, and so do the bad aesthetics of individuals within that society; Tarnower's house matters, the pretensions of his diet book matter--style is a moral mode, a mode in morality...
...acknowledged a Soviet hand in the crisis. Schmidt has a crucial stake in good relations with the Eastern bloc. His Social Democratic party got where it is by advocating Ostpolitik, a policy that views trade with the East as the basis for an eventual normalization of relations--if not outright reunification--with East Germany. In fact, Schmidt--who was visiting East German leader Erich Honecker at the moment of the crackdown against Solidarity--did not bother to cut short their talks. He is clearly sensitive to the political clout of the European peace movement that this fall mobilized several hundred...
...gains with minimum risk of war by means of diplomacy, intimidation, propaganda, covert action, or the use of proxies. If necessary, though, it will resort to direct military intervention to ensure the survival of the Soviet system, including in those countries where the system has been imposed by outright conquest-such as Hungary, Czechoslovakia and, possibly next, Poland. On Christmas Day two years ago, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan to prop up a faltering Marxist regime and has been there ever since...
Hampered initially by a maddening lack of reliable information as to exactly what was happening inside Poland, and worried lest too strident a reaction might yet give the Soviets an excuse for an outright takeover, Washington decided from the start that its responses would indeed be primarily words. Through the early days, Haig and other officials confined themselves to restrained expressions of "concern" and cautiously voiced hopes that the martial law crackdown would only be "a temporary retrogression, not a change in the overall historic trend toward reform" in Poland. As one top diplomat explained: "We want to tread...
...what he wanted. By a 63-to-21 vote, the Knesset agreed to extend "the law, jurisdiction and administration of the state" to the heights area, which has been treated for 14 years by Israel as occupied foreign territory under military rule. Israel's move fell short of outright annexation, but only in the narrowest legal sense...