Word: outrightly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University of Washington: "Many students at this institution have graduated from muggles to hard stuff. Many girls come to class with their arms scarred.... This university is also noteworthy for its extremes of homosexualism among undergraduates, often a manifestation of...outright Communist alignments...in so many instances that it cannot be coincidence, all these traits are perceptible in the same individual...
...morass of considerations raised during Faculty discussions of the Bender Report appeared three crucial problems: division of authority, money, and manpower. Each threatened either to subvert the program or to wreck it outright...
...sexy situation (nine years before Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises), showed that Hamsun's real literary impulse, formed during his years of vagabondage, was a profound reaction to petit bourgeois life. A few years later he embraced Reaction as a political faith. His wife was an outright Nazi sympathizer, and Hamsun himself fell for the Hitler line. When Germany conquered Norway, he told his countrymen: "Norwegians! Throw away your rifles and return home. The Germans are fighting for us and all neutrals." He supported Vidkun Quisling, and in 1943 visited Hitler...
...government has exercised its right to boss A.F.P. before, fired Nèegre outright in 1947 for what it called "administrative reasons," but he fought so hard that he was reinstated. When Faure suspended Neègre last week, A.F.P. men were shown again what they had known all along: that the press, no more than a nation, can be merely half free. A.F.P. was already paying for the discovery. The Dutch news agency, A.N.P., which had just concluded a new contract for A.F.P. service doubling the old price, informed A.F.P. that, in view of the government's control...
...consent decree, like those signed by RKO, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox and Warner Brothers (TIME, May 17, 1948, et seq.), requires Loew's to sell 24 theaters outright, and possibly 50 others in its 131-theater chain, in order to encourage competition. Under the five consent decrees signed by the movie companies, more than 1,200 theaters will eventually be sold to independent exhibitors. Another 1,300 are slated to be run by the new theater companies that were organized after divorcement...