Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...survey mean Harvard men are weak-kneed creampuffs, or even more cowardly than Yalies. "It is easy to exaggerate opposition to going into the army," he says. "The impression given by the survey, at Harvard and nationally, is more of a lack of enthusiasm for military service than outright opposition to the idea. I doubt very much if any wholesale draft-dodging will come...
...Detroit and Michigan industries, as a result of heavy investments in equipment, tools and machinery, and improved techniques of production, are competitive with other labor groups throughout the world." Free trade, said the Board, is inevitable. And it is illogical to send American products abroad with loans, grants and outright gifts to buy the goods, and at the same time refuse foreign imports that could well pay for U.S. exports. The U.S. is quickly approaching the position where it will become heavily dependent upon raw materials imported from abroad. Keeping tariffs, the board argued, would only serve to impoverish Americans...
...this, then, a strident proclamation announcing the advent of Fascism? Is it an outright prediction of a Palmer-like series of witch-hunts? The editorial reader Livingston attacks is no more than a deeply felt and statistically plausible qualm on our part, one which we hope is needles. Whatever upset reader Livingston's stomach, then, has little to do with such mild grape-juice as out. It involves ingerdients which he himself unjustly read into the editorial...
Dever's record as Governor has not been the best. An easy-going person, he has tolerated much wastefulness, laziness, and at times outright corruption in the state administration. Much of the waste has come from the very act of building his machine; to make more voters happy, he must provide more jobs, and this is possible only by straining the budget...
Washington's open-collared, arm-flailing Republican Senator Harry P. Cain is fighting desperately for his political life. Although endorsed outright by Eisenhower, Cain's contradictory and regressive voting record has made few of his constituants happy, while his opponent, Representative Henry M. Jackson, is making a successful appeal to liberal Republicans as well as to Democrats...