Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reaction to the probable appointment of Governor Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court varied from outright jubilation to mild resignation among professors contacted last night...
...ruffled any hairs in Washington, Paris or London, where for five years the policy had been to make believe that the Trieste issue was not there at all. But the new Italian government of Premier Giuseppe Pella took the hints to mean the worst-that Tito was preparing for outright annexation of Zone B, the southern half of the territory, which has been in Yugoslav control since World War II. From Rome went orders to the army and navy: two to three divisions of Italian troops along the Yugoslav border were put on the alert, and a cruiser...
...Communist Tito traveled to the village of Okragljica, only 25 miles from the Trieste boundary, and before 250,000 Yugoslavs announced that he was withdrawing all his past compromise proposals and demanding a new one even less acceptable to Italy: internationalization of the Port of Trieste and outright annexation of the rest of the territory by Yugoslavia...
...journey back home that the Easterners feared most. The despised Volkspolizei were now checking all trains. Often they confiscated the parcels outright, and sent the lard, canned milk and beans along to their barracks. But those who merely lost their much needed gifts were lucky. The Vopos fined or arrested many. Some were accused of being American agents, a crime punishable by imprisonment or death, and to others the courts began meting out prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry...
...heirs lacked his heart for such battles. Last week, 67 years after Senator George Hearst made his coup, legal title to the great ranch passed from the Hearst estate to the Mexican government. The government had been prepared for expropriation, but the transaction finally agreed on was an outright sale. The price: $2,500,000 cash. Thus passed the last of the great cattle empires of Mexico's north. Though Babicora will not, like other big ranches, be parceled out to peasants in small lots, it will be broken up and sold to private owners in tracts...