Word: outright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stable, efficient, economic system, that some real attempts at liberalization have come. And cutting off economic and military aid to the regime itself would get the message across that we will have nothing to do with a racist state. And yet maintaining non-governmental ties would avoid the outright isolation that breeds paranoia among whites...
...with speculation that the Soviets might station submarines with nuclear missiles off the U.S. coasts and break off the INF talks. Still, key White House officials, perhaps wishfully, saw Andropov's speech more as an attempt to frighten European populations about the planned U.S. deployment than as an outright rejection of the Reagan proposals. Despite the Soviets' latest psychological offensive, however, the prevailing view among Western Europe's leaders was that the debate over missiles in Europe has run its course and that deployment will proceed...
...case made against the Rosenbergs implicitly pitted the United States against the Soviet Union, as the outright enemy from which any and all secrets must be prudently guarded. It is easy to forget that the trial took place only after America and Russia were wartime allies--so that it was in the Rosenberg case itself that many of the seeds of the Cold War were sown...
...imaginative force and outright terribilità, it is quite possibly the most crushing and exhilarating exhibition of work by a 20th century artist ever held in the U.S. Beginning this week, over the next four months nearly a million people will queue outside New York City's Museum of Modern Art to get a glimpse of it. Pablo Picasso, who died in 1973, is being honored in a show of nearly 1,000 of his works, some never exhibited before, drawn from collections the world over...
...other Arab states, and led to a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the Israelis to withdraw from Beirut. But no one could have anticipated that before the week was over, the Israeli peace-keeping exercise in West Beirut would lead, whether by complicity or carelessness or outright incompetence, to the massacre of hundreds of men, women and children in two Palestinian refugee camps that the Israelis were supposedly guarding...