Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most outright failures are in the group that shows greatest fear of bodily harm...
Taking action on a similar cross country request, the Council voted to reject it outright on the grounds that there is not sufficient interest in the sport. "We feel, however," White said, "that cross country is otherwise qualified for major status. Cross country men certainly train as hard as those in other sports...
...Whitney's show underlined a curious gloom in U.S. sculptors today. Mostly they weld metal figures of a tormented yet unsympathetic sort. Forbiddingly invested with knobs, prickles and outright spikes, the figures imprison a bit of free air and defy anyone to invade it. David Hare's sculptures were a happy exception to the grim parade. Long dour as the rest, Hare has now invented a new and carefree impressionism. His Sunrise creates an effect of light and loftiness out of a rock, some steel bars and cut bronze sheets tinted with gold. Another exception was Richard Lippold...
...annually to charitable organizations. Less than 3 per cent of this money comes from Ford and other big foundations like it--Rockefeller, Carnegie, Russell Sage, Guggenheim, and approximately sixty others with more than $10,000,000 in capital. Still more comes from small endowments and outright gifts from individuals...
...first time in its 29-year history, the Book-of-the-Month Club has sent out with a selection the dissenting opinion of one of its judges. Miss Amy Loveman, 73, an editor of the Saturday Review, offers an outright caveat emptor; Robert Ruark's new novel is, she says, "shocking...