Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Moreover, Wilson's condemnations of academia are often overly-harsh, often to the point of sounding adolescent. Though Wilson stops short of raging an outright attack on authority and its preceptors, his picture of religion and scholasticism is notably unsympathetic. Potential "heroes" are either washed up and disillusioned by their own insight, or undercut their own good intentions with overbearing concern...
Harvard Coach Joe Restic, gunning with his squad for a third straight piece of a league crown and the first Crimson outright Ivy title since 1975, even admits he's slightly worried...
After Catliff evened things up, Harvard, which has until then dominated the match everywhere except where it counted--on the scoreboard--tried to wear down the Judges' resistance as time with in hoping to win the thing outright before the end of regulation time, or at lest to win in overtime...
...women's tennis team managed its second straight Ivy title and its first outright, downing Princeton in the squad's last match of the year...
DIED. Irvin Feld, 66, hard-driving impresario who in 1956 rescued the foundering Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus from ruin and eleven years later bought it outright and thereafter ran it extravaganzily and profitably; of a brain hemorrhage; in Venice...