Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once again, Batista's staying power was in question. For a few months the strong-man was able to keep Castro's revolution from catching on. But Castro's open display of fight and organization was an outright challenge. From Havana, orders went out for an all-out attack on the rebels...
...among the 86,000 Navajos, last year's $35 million tribal oil income would have meant only $400 apiece. Under the leadership of grey-haired Chairman Paul Jones, 62, a full-blooded Navajo, with a full count of glittering gold-filled teeth, the council spends very little for outright charity, devotes most of its budget to education and development projects. Items: ¶A $5,000,000 fund to provide 400 college scholarships a year...
...third anniversary of the Supreme Court's epochal desegregation decision, some 14,000 Negroes and whites, members of a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, converged on Washington, D.C.'s Lincoln Memorial temple. The three-hour program offered some prayers, hymns, solemn speeches and outright rabble-rousing. New York's shrill Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell bitterly cried: "We meet here today in front of the Lincoln Memorial because we are getting more from a dead Republican than we are from live Democrats and live Republicans!" In direct contrast, staking his hopes on the future rather than anchoring...
Richards had piled up a remarkable record during his harddriving, eight-week trip. Of the 13 countries he visited, eleven wholeheartedly bought into the doctrine or registered their general approval. Among the outright subscribers are the four Baghdad Pact members (Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan) and Greece. Saudi Arabia, with Lebanon, Libya and Ethiopia, have signed policy declarations expressing opposition to international Communism. Afghanistan, more circumspect because of neighboring Russia, welcomed the overall U.S. objective in the Middle East-national independence and economic betterment...
...billion of foreign aid that goes for military purposes. Nor can it be expected to undertake agricultural reform and flood-control projects now financed by the Government. But it could replace some of the most controversial part of the foreign-aid program - the 15%-20% devoted to outright economic aid. Private dollars are far more effective than Government grants or loans because they act faster and more directly to stimulate local economies and generate new capital. Businessmen estimate that $1 in private capital does as much work as $3 in Government aid. U.S. firms now operate or make investments...