Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tattered family and the shack of a striking Kentucky coal miner to il-lustrate its claim that millions of children in capitalist countries suffer from poverty. From such isolated instances, it is no trick for the Soviet press to jump to the sweeping generalization and, if necessary, to the outright lie ("While hungry American children look for a slice of stale bread, the stores are crammed with food which is left...
...areas of religious practice or of family life, rather than belief, there is a moderate divergence on the question of belief in immortality. Although an almost equal proportion believe in "the continued existence of the individual soul," fewer girls are ready to deny immortality. Only 16 girls answer an outright "no" to immortality for every 20 Harvard men who deny a belief...
...mining engineer in Mexico City, will receive $100,000 and, at his mother's death, half her estate. Daughter Lillias Dulles Hinshaw, wife of a Manhattan publicist and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary, will receive the other half of Janet Dulles' estate, also gets $10,000 outright, plus forgiveness of a mortgage held by her father. Dulles' three sisters are each to get $10,000; William C. Pierce and Henry N. Ess III, his law partners in the Manhattan firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, will get $25,000 each. To his second son, Avery Dulles, went only...
...Lack of Truth. From the start, investigation of the brutal slaughter at Hola seemed strangely halfhearted, often clouded by deceit and outright lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were...
...Repeal the 10% federal tax on fares. ¶ Reduce railroad property taxes, give outright community subsidies for money-losing schedules deemed essential. ¶ Experimenting, on the part of the railroads, with new, passenger-appealing types of coaches, sleeping cars, diners and other facilities, coupled with "imaginative" pricing to build volume...