Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans are a charitable lot, and they will forgive this president his sins, even if they revise their opinion of him. They will forgive, if they haven't already forgotten, his self-contradictions or outright lies about trading arms for hostages, not to mention the policy itself (although history may be less generous...
...others, the switch pointed to dismaying presidential fuzziness, if not outright deceit, about a vital matter of foreign policy. Scoffed one Senator: "The President can't remember which version is true and which is the cover story." The lawmaker added that Reagan's memory has noticeably deteriorated; just before his prostate surgery in January, he approved a major intelligence "finding," but two weeks later could not remember...
...following year she was less successful. In April 1986 Hakim and Secord bought the ship outright, using money from the infamous account at the Credit Suisse Bank in Geneva that they controlled with North. They rechristened her the Erria, and she was sent to Cyprus to wait while negotiators worked to release four American hostages. Four camp beds were taken on board, and the Erria made her way to the Lebanese coast. But the deal fell through, and she was recalled to Denmark...
However, if the Crimson defeats Yale tomorrow at Hemenway to close its Ivy season at 5-0, it will snag the title outright. Harvard demolished Yale, 6-1, in the Howe Cup tourney...
...best to explore the path of negotiations to the utmost," she told a group of soldiers at Camp Aguinaldo, the armed forces headquarters near Manila. Still, Aquino held hope that negotiations might be renewed, at least on a regional level. The insurgents rebuffed the idea outright as a "malicious move to sow dissension and division within insurgent ranks." Said a rebel leader: "This is the most important phase of our struggle, and we shall do everything to kill Cory's soldiers." Countered Defense Minister Rafael Ileto: "We won't allow anyone to threaten us. We are prepared. I think...