Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours before the service, West German President Richard von Weizsacker had challenged his countrymen not to flinch from their responsibility for the Holocaust. "Every German was able to experience what his Jewish compatriots had to suffer, ranging from plain apathy and hidden intolerance to outright hatred," he declared in a speech in parliament. "But too many people (attempted) not to take notice of what was happening. When the unspeakable truth . . . became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, or even suspected anything...
...Soviet gambit came with surprising swiftness and adroit timing. It was aimed squarely at public opinion in Western Europe, where the SDI is perceived by some to reduce the chances for arms reductions, just as a battered Reagan was scheduled to arrive there. While not rebuffing Gorbachev's offer outright, the State Department expressed cautious doubts that the proposal went far beyond previous Soviet formulations that the U.S. had found unacceptable. For his part, Reagan at week's end pronounced himself still "very willing" to meet with Gorbachev if, as expected, the Soviet leader attends the opening...
...Popular American Revolutionary Alliance, victory seemed just out of reach. The youthful, center-left candidate gained an unofficial 48% of the votes cast in Peru's April 14 election, a better than 2-to-1 lead over Lima's Marxist mayor, Alfonso Barrantes Lingan. But Garcia needed an outright majority to win, and the two rivals faced the prospect of a runoff election...
...find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean--almost any of them will serve--and spend a week doing nothing. The wild flowers are already out by now, whole fields of yellow and purple, and there are rumors that habitable seaside cottages can still be bought outright for as little...
...days when a big network mini-series could mobilize the country around its TV sets night after night seem to have vanished. Though none of this season's mini-series were outright bombs, all fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than...